How to Use dark matter in a Sentence

dark matter

noun
  • Scientists suggest that an unusual form of dark matter may be the solution.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Then in September, a separate group of physicists pointed out (opens a new tab) that another dark matter candidate sometimes called fuzzy dark matter could do the trick as well.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Is 80 percent of the mass in the universe cold dark matter?
    David A. Weintraub, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2013
  • The lid comes off, and dark matter rises in the power plant.
    Abbey Maxbauer, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • It’s the dark matter that draws people across the desert to Zero Zone.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Further, the machine could help us in the hunt for dark matter.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
  • It will also be used to probe the nature of dark matter.
    Lucie Green, Wired, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Again: 84 percent of the galaxy is made up of dark matter.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • Most of the mass comes from black holes and dark matter, which are tough to measure with a telescope.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
  • WIMPs became a favourite candidate for the dark matter in the 1980s.
    Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Some scientists have tried to kick the dark matter habit.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Fuzzy dark matter axions would be even lighter than this.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • His work ranged from the Big Bang to quantum mechanics to the true nature of dark matter.
    Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The universe has a dark side—it’s filled with dark matter and dark energy.
    Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
  • There's dark matter streaming through your body right now.
    Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The Standard Model is silent about dark matter and even the force of gravity.
    Marcela Carena, Scientific American, 5 July 2022
  • That will give us a map of all of the galaxies, which traces where all of the matter is, which is mostly dark matter.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
  • And black holes, the researchers say, are a prime example of the properties of dark matter.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Add one part dark matter, two parts dark energy and just a dash of matter.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Quantum atomic clocks are an integral part of the search for dark matter in a key way.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022
  • In 2008 Freese and some of her colleagues proposed that the universe’s first stars could have been powered by dark matter.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
  • Boxed in with ceilings and dark matter, the level designers make full use of each grid.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • The dark matter may have pulled in huge quantities of gas and dust, allowing both the galaxies and the black hole to form.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The idea is that the dark matter clumps into the shape of bubbles or walls that would extend across the solar system and beyond.
    NBC News, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Simple-seeming facts emerge from a dark matter of sources and methods.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 23 June 2023
  • This team is not the first to propose looking for dark matter signatures in the Universe.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Learning more about this early epoch is the key to many of the most pressing conundrums in physics: What is dark matter?
    Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2019
  • How is dark matter hidden in plain sight, and what are its qualities?
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps the most famous of these mysteries is that of dark matter.
    Dan Hooper, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The calculations offered some of the first evidence of dark matter in the 1970s.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020

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