Understanding Dark Matter Through A New Natural Law?

"None of these explanations are completely satisfying, say the authors. Their paper doesn’t go into the details, but it falls right in the middle of an ongoing discussion about the validity of the dark matter model. This work demonstrates a regularity in the data, says McGaugh. “How you interpret that is a whole 'nother can o' worms.” There’s no doubt that scientists will be elbow deep in that can before long."

A Natural Law for Rotating Galaxies… What Does This Mean for Dark Matter?

Dark Matter: It Is So Mysterious That It May Not Exist

"Dark matter was proposed to help explain a variety of cosmic puzzles, such as why galaxies can spin as fast as they are observed to without being ripped apart. However, the nature of dark matter remains a puzzle in itself. Now scientists analyzing more than 150 galaxies find that dark matter might not explain their new observations, which they say hints that dark matter might not exist and that a new law of nature might be needed to solve all these mysteries."

New Findings Muddy Understanding Of Dark Matter

The Latest On Dark Matter Detection

"After 20 years working on WIMPs, supersymmetry and dark matter, he has no doubts about the course of research. 'The Higgs boson was postulated in 1964 and discovered in 2012,' he says. 'I am not really surprised it has taken us 30 years and we haven't seen anything yet. It may take another 20. Right now, it would be premature to give up.'”

Dark matter: What's the matter?

The Elusive Dark Matter

"Physics has missed a long-scheduled appointment with its future—again. The latest, most sensitive searches for the particles thought to make up dark matter—the invisible stuff that may comprise 85 percent of the mass in the cosmos—have found nothing."

Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness

Dark Matter

"Dark matter is the most mysterious, non-interacting substance in the Universe. Its gravitational effects are necessary to explain the rotation of galaxies, the motions of clusters, and the largest scale-structure in the entire Universe. But on smaller scales, it’s too sparse and diffuse to impact the motion of the Solar System, the matter here on Earth, or the origin and evolution of humans in any meaningful way. Yet the gravity that dark matter provides is an absolute necessity for allowing our galaxy to hold onto the raw ingredients that made life like us and planets like Earth possible at all. Without dark matter, the Universe would likely have no signs of life at all."

Is Dark Matter Required For Life To Exist?