Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 27, 2014 #1 Share Posted June 27, 2014 'Cosmic own goal' another clue in hunt for dark matter The hunt for dark matter has taken another step forward thanks to new supercomputer simulations showing the evolution of our 'local Universe' from the Big Bang to the present day. Physicists at Durham University, UK, who are leading the research, say their simulations could improve understanding of dark matter, a mysterious substance believed to make up 85 per cent of the mass of the Universe. The results will be presented at the National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth on Thursday 26 June.Professor Carlos Frenk, Director of Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology, said: "I've been losing sleep over this for the last 30 years. Dark matter is the key to everything we know about galaxies, but we still don’t know its exact nature. Understanding how galaxies formed holds the key to the dark matter mystery." Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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