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Move over, WIMPs. There’s a new hypothetical physical phenomenon in town.

One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. One possible explanation: That we live in a giant void in space (an area with below average density).

It's the Brilliant 10 class of 2023.

It's the Brilliant 10 class of 2023.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.

A new study helped scientists better constrain the possible properties of dark matter particles.

"I am quite surprised that it happened during my lifetime. It is nice to be right about something sometimes." -Peter Higgs The LHC at CERN proved its value, for sure, but there are lots of other opinions floating around. On this and all topics at Starts With A Bang, you're free to have your say! Here's the ground we've covered, in case you missed anything:

If dark matter is made from "dark" versions of the basic building blocks of ordinary matter, the worlds largest particle accelerator should be able to pin it down, a new study suggests.

Experiments at CERN and the Accelerator Laboratory in Jyväskylä, Finland, have revealed that the radius of an exotic nucleus of aluminium, 26mAl,  is much larger than previously thought. The result, described in a paper just published in Physical Review Letters, sheds light on the effects of the weak force on quarks – the elementary particles that make up protons, neutrons and other composite particles. Among the four known fundamental forces of nature – the electromagnetic force, the str...

Cosmologists speculate that there may have been a second Big Bang that could explain the great abundance of dark matter in the universe Astronomers have