Black holes could reveal the presence of dark matter in their immediate vicinity through their gravitational waves.

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the observation that matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. A key ...

An artist's impression of gravitational waves (red and blue) emitted by a merging pair of black holes, inside a cloud of dark matter. (MIT) We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019.

The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs. Reading time 2 minutes A team of researchers has proposed a novel way to search for ...

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

New research suggests dark matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that ring through the cosmos whe ...

The shift in the gravitational wave signals due to ultralight dark matter could be detected on Earth by future detectors like LISA. Dr. Caio Macedo, a professor at Universidade Federal do Pará and ...

Cold atoms and matter waves is a research area focused on the quantum behavior of dilute atomic gases cooled to microkelvin or nanokelvin temperatures, where their de Broglie wavelengths become ...

First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom using a graphene-based diffraction grating. (Nanowerk News) One of the discoveries that fundamentally ...

Using a highly coherent positronium beam, the researchers observed clear diffraction patterns after transmission through a graphene film, confirming its wave-like behavior. One of the discoveries that ...