How to Use dark matter in a Sentence

dark matter

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Simple-seeming facts emerge from a dark matter of sources and methods.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 23 June 2023
  • 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
  • For the global economy, that viral dark matter could be the source of future black swans.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Visible matter makes up about 5% of the universe, while dark matter makes up about 20%.
    John McCormick, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • It’s not just the true nature of dark matter that eludes them; so does the essence of the stars that speckle the sky and populate the many galaxies throughout the cosmos.
    Ken Croswell, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
  • The team’s results suggest the distribution of dark matter around the Milky Way is complex.
    Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • At the same time, the telescope is expected to yield new insights into the universe’s unseen elements, such as dark matter and dark energy.
    Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
  • Researchers typically plot out the story of galaxy formation using simulations, aiming to model the presence of features like stars and dark matter and seeing how those interact.
    Georgina Torbet, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024

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