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How the Large Underground Xenon detector finds dark matter
The Large Underground Xenon Detector is a two-phase liquid xenon detector designed to pick up dark matter particles. The Large Underground Xenon detector, or LUX, is located about a mile underground. Its outer tank is filled with...
NASA
NASA | Turning Black Holes into Dark Matter Labs
A new computer simulation tracking dark matter particles in the extreme gravity of a black hole shows that strong, potentially observable gamma-ray light can be produced. Detecting this emission would provide astronomers with a new tool...
NASA
Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a bizarre, ghostly looking galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 that astronomers calculate to have little to no dark matter. This is the first galaxy astronomers have discovered to be so lacking in...
Professor Dave Explains
The End of the Universe: Hot or Cold?
We've talked at great length about the beginning of the universe, everything we know, and what we don't yet know. But everything that has a beginning must have an end. How will the universe end? How can we tell? When will it happen?...
Physics Girl
World’s Largest Camera Lens
The world's largest digital camera is currently being assembled at a warehouse in California. We caught the short window of time to see the camera's massive lens.
Science360
National Science Foundation - EHT Press Conference Revealing First Image of Black Hole
View, Learn, Share, this National Science Foundation webcast.
Science360
Dark Matter Detection with XENON100
Dark matter has so far foiled most means of detection, but researchers are continuing to pursue its mysteries. They're using the most sensitive detector yet, called XENON100, to try to glimpse the particles. See how it works in this...
Professor Dave Explains
Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Frontier of Astronomy
For a while now, we've been discussing all of things we know about the universe. What about some of the things we don't know? If we look to the current frontier of astronomy, we find two mystifying concepts, dark matter and dark energy....
Curated Video
Bob McDonald wants people to question pseudo-scientific claims
Science and space expert Bob McDonald shares his thoughts on space junk and why pseudoscience gets under his skin. The Quirks and Quarks host also spoke to Andrew Chang about his newest book, An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space.
Curated Video
China launches dark matter detection satellite
Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is country's 1st space telescope
Curated Video
The Spy in Your Phone | Al Jazeera World
The story of how Israeli-made spyware Pegasus works, the hacking of journalists' phones and its ominous consequences.
Curated Video
Euclid telescope: ESA's 'dark universe' mission sends back stunning first images of distant galaxies
In newly released images from its Euclid telescope, the European Space Agency (ESA) has offered a glimpse of never-seen-before distant galaxies.
Curated Video
UFOs Are Potential Security Threats According to U.S. Lawmakers
Pentagon officials testified today in a rare congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), colloquially referred to as UFOs. Avi Loeb, the Frank B Baird, Jr. professor of science at Harvard University, joined Closing...
Getty Images
This video shows the first 3D map of the distribution of dark matter that scientists have created by analysing the Hubble COSMOS survey - the largest survey of the Universe ever conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Note how the clumping of the dark matter becomes more pronounced, moving right to left across the volume map, from the early Universe to the more recent Universe
Bloomberg
Atomic Clocks Are Reinventing Time
Feb.19 -- Though humans don't experience it in their daily lives, gravity and movement can change how time elapses. Ultra-precise atomic clocks are now able to measure these tiny changes, known as time dilation. It's a technological...
Curated Video
WRAP Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot win the Nobel Prize in Physics
1. Various of Stockholm skyline
2. Tilt up of exterior of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
3. Close up of sign reading "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
4. Mid shot of Nobel committee
5. Audience listening
6. SOUNDBITE (English)...
Curated Video
Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot win Nobel Prize in Physics
1. Various of Stockholm skyline
2. Tilt up of exterior of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
3. Close up of sign reading "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
4. Mid shot of Nobel committee
5. Audience listening
6. SOUNDBITE (English)...
Curated Video
Lab in old gold mine could unlock mysteries of dark matter
Nestled nearly 5-thousand feet (1,524 metres) beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, South Dakora, is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.
It's...
Curated Video
Project examining light from the "Big Bang" shows universe older than thought
1. Wide shot inside European Space Agency, press conference in progress
2. Close up of George Efstathiou, astrophysicist, speaking
3. Mid shot inside European Space Agency, press conference in progress
4. Close up graphic on screen...
MinutePhysics
Minute Physics: What Is Dark Matter?
It's hard to explain stuff you can't see! But, this animated stick-figure drawing describes dark matter and how we know it exists. It likens the galaxy to a merry-go-round, holding the stars on their circular path. The one-minute...
TED-Ed
String Theory and the Hidden Structures of the Universe
When we take things apart, we can learn how they work. Physicist Clifford Johnson explains how we break down all objects into elementary particles of matter and forces. Patterns have been identified with the particles, the existence dark...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Galaxies and Dark Matter
This video lesson has the goal of introducing students to galaxies as large collections of gravitationally bound stars. It explores the amount of matter needed for a star to remain bound and then brings in the idea of Dark Matter, a new...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Crash Course Big History: The Big Bang
Crash Course is a fast, funny, irreverent look at history beginning with the Big Bang Theory. In this episode, brothers John and Hank Green gives us their take on what makes Big History so darn important. [13:55]