Articles for tag: astrophysics, cosmology, DarkMatter, TheoreticalPhysics

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Could Dark Matter Be Alive? The Wildest Theories Yet

Suhail Ahmed

  Every galaxy you see in those jaw-dropping Hubble images is held together by something invisible, something that silently outweighs all the stars, planets, gas, and dust we know. Physicists call it dark matter, and for decades they’ve treated it like a cold, dead scaffolding for the universe. But a growing group of thinkers is ...

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Does the universe have extra dimensions hiding in plain sight?

Suhail Ahmed

  Walk outside on a clear night, look up, and you’re seeing only a thin slice of reality – or at least that’s what a growing number of physicists suspect. For more than a century, we’ve treated space as a three-dimensional stage with time as a fourth, but some of today’s boldest theories say that ...