Assuming dark matter exists, its interactions with ordinary matter are so subtle that even the most sensitive instruments cannot detect them. In a new study, Northwestern University physicists now ...
This week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon break down all of the announcements from Apple’s Let Loose event, grade their event predictions, and highlight this week’s release of sci-fi series ...
The study, "Polaronic polariton quasiparticles in a dark excitonic medium," was published in Physical Review B. Exciton-polaritons (polaritons, for short) are hybrid mixtures of light and matter ...
If dark matter is an axion, then each individual particle might be incredibly light — anywhere from one-trillionth to one-thousandth the mass of an electron. This would make the dark matter ...
The story of dark matter begins in the 1930s ... matter put together in unexpected ways that mean they don’t give off light. Very faint stars such as brown dwarfs, black holes and neutron ...