dark matter

FOUND: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/physics/dark-matter Unlike normal matter, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This means it does not absorb, reflect or emit light, making it extremely hard to spot. In fact, researchers have been able to infer the existence of dark matter only from the gravitational effect it seems to have on visible matter. Dark…

FOUND: http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/21-the-possible-parallel-universe-of-dark-matter If one variety of dark matter can clump together, it could form a panoply of previously unimagined dark structures. It could ball up into dark stars surrounded by dark planets made of dark atoms. In the most extravagant leap of possibility, this new kind of dark matter might even allow the existence of dark…

FOUND: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/our-entire-universe-might-exist-inside-a-massive-black-hole-say#ixzz3FxfHAExD Our universe began with a Big Bang some 13-15 billion years ago. On this, most physicists agree. But few theorists have ventured to explain what happened “before” the Big Bang, or how the Big Bang came to be. This is because the laws of physics break down at the point of a singularity, such…