Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of deep space. A new dark matter model suggests a new candidate for the constituent particles of this mysterious ...

The next step was to consider whether there was a model for dark matter that exhibited this interaction. "And here we came up with the idea of the phase transition," McGehee said. "We then calculated ...

Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. It is clear that it must exist, because without dark matter, for example, the motion of galaxies cannot be explained. But it has ...