Pearl Sandick is an assistant professor of physics at the University of Utah, where she teaches a graduate course in general relativity. Her research interests include dark matter and supersymmetry.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In the middle of the night on February 13, 2023, the Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss ...

For decades, physicists have chased the dream of unifying all of nature’s forces under a single theory. String theory has long been a top candidate, offering a single mathematical framework that could ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

GENEVA - Physicists say they have all but proven that the "God particle" exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle ...

If dark matter is made from "dark" versions of the basic building blocks of ordinary matter, the world's largest particle accelerator should be able to pin it down, a new study suggests. When you ...

A groundbreaking new study, recently published on arXiv, challenges one of the most fundamental assumptions in cosmology: that dark matter remains constant over time. For decades, scientists have ...

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Particle physics continues to probe the most fundamental constituents of matter while dark matter research seeks to illuminate the unseen mass that permeates our Universe. Recent efforts have ...

Though Halloween will undoubtedly take the spotlight today, there's another spooky event worth celebrating. Thursday (Oct. 31) marks this year's Dark Matter Day as well, a time during which scientists ...

The investigation of cosmic rays and their potential connection with dark matter occupies a central role in contemporary astrophysics. Recent experimental and theoretical advances have refined our ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In February of 2023, the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino ...