How to Use dark matter in a Sentence

dark matter

noun

• 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
• As its name suggests, dark matter is difficult to spot.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Will dark matter and dark energy ever be actually seen?
  — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Astronomers will now seek new answers to old questions about the expansion rate of the universe, the properties of dark matter, and the birth and death of stars.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
• Set in one of the most remote, desolate parts of the world, the show explores what happens when dark matter experiments go awry, putting love and life at risk.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 20 Oct. 2024
• Still, the presence of any dark disk at all, even one made of a minority of dark matter particles, would revolutionize physics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2017
• Soon researchers realized that dark matter was unlikely to be made up of normal matter and radiation.
  — Leslie Rosenberg, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2018
• The hero, a mouthy twentysomething with an alter ego composed of dark matter, and his pal, whose head is a flaming skull, flee a pack of shady characters called the Men in Black.
  — Chicago Reader, 12 Oct. 2017
• Barkana argues that interactions between dark matter and normal matter can explain the radio signature.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Mar. 2018
• And any progress in identifying dark matter could revolutionize particle physics.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Finally, theories that touch on the composition of dark matter (of which supersymmetry is one, but not the only one) have also suffered blows in the past few years.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• Here, researchers have layered the location of galaxies (marked with black dots) pulled from the SDSS on top of their dark matter data.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017
• One class of hypothetical objects that might be dark matter do interact via the weak force, a phenomenon that also controls some sorts of radioactive decay.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• Scientists have known dark matter exists, indirectly, through measurements based on gravity.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Detecting this change would be a sign that a dark matter particle has passed by.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024