Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 27% of the universe’s total mass.

The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have ...

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"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

Spectrographic technology to separate light from decaying dark matter and background light. WINERED uses the broader spectral properties of background light to tell it apart from light from decay ...

But if these static periods do exist, they could solve all manner of conundrums, including what dark matter is made of. Even more exciting, these ideas may soon be testable.… Receive a weekly ...