Last Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 14:17
The distance from the solar system to the galactic center is approximately 26,100 light-years, and the galactic rotation velocity in the solar system (V0) is approximately 240 km/s.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 09:10
As part of a 2.35-million-pound project looking at how matter and energy interact, scientists are to mimic black holes in a laboratory on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:29
With the latest observations from the Planck satellite, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, may be closer than ever to a solution to the origin of the mysterious dark matter.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 17:47
Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy could support the theory that dark matter exists at the center of galaxies, according to UC Irvine astrophysicists.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 16:25
Scientists have claimed that the Sun is surrounded by dark matter, a phenomenon first proposed in the 1930s by a Swiss astronomer.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 15:42
Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday said that release of water by Nepal into rivers originating from there was the major cause of flood-like situation in the state and the matter would be taken up with the neighbouring country soon.
Last Updated: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 12:27
Researchers are set to start work on finding the dark matter in an underground facility in an old gold mine in South Dakota`s Black Hills.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 16:31
Amid controversies over Vodafone tax matter and GAAR, BJP on Wednesday hit out at the government saying it has mishandled these issues creating scare and uncertainty among the foreign investors.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 11:08
Scientists have announced a discovery that confirms a key prediction in the prevailing theory of how the universe’s current web-like structure evolved.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 14:20
Astrophysicists have for the first time detected the skeleton of dark matter that undergirds the cosmic web of matter in the universe.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 15:26
The most accurate study till date of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has not found any evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:26
Researchers have shed light on how ancient sound waves sculpted the cosmos, thus revealing the most accurate measurements ever made of the large-scale structure of the universe between five to seven billion years ago.
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