How to Use dark matter in a Sentence

dark matter

noun
  • 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
  • Fuzzy dark matter axions would be even lighter than this.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Simple-seeming facts emerge from a dark matter of sources and methods.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 23 June 2023
  • How is dark matter hidden in plain sight, and what are its qualities?
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Visible matter makes up about 5% of the universe, while dark matter makes up about 20%.
    John McCormick, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • The halo, which hosts a small population of stars, is also thought to contain a lot of dark matter.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • And in the last few years, there have been some truly promising ideas for detecting dark matter axions.
    Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 11 May 2022
  • The stated purpose of Beacon 23 is to keep spaceships safe by steering them away from dark matter.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The center of the Milky Way could be dark matter instead of a supermassive black hole, according to a new study.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2021
  • What exactly is dark matter, the unseen stuff that astronomers say makes up one-quarter of the universe by mass?
    New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Here, dark matter starts clumping together, and then those clumps grow.
    Ramin Skibba, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022
  • But as with dark matter, little evidence has emerged to support this idea.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Though Rubin was snubbed for a Nobel prize, her discovery led to research on dark matter.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
  • How do dark matter, dark energy, gravity and space-time fit in?
    Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The nation also plans to search for more evidence of dark matter with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer-2.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 July 2022
  • As these waves pass through dark matter detectors, researchers can observe their ebb and flow in predictable ways.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That has caused people to reexamine whether WIMPs are the best solution to dark matter.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Invisible substances known as dark matter and dark energy seem to make up some 95% of the content of the universe.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • At that point, the universe is mostly hydrogen gas, and some helium and dark matter.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The cost of establishing a network of suitable telescopes is lower than the amount invested so far in the search for the nature of dark matter.
    Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Cosmologists estimate that dark matter makes up about 24 percent of all the stuff in the universe.
    Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021

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