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Dark matter

Physics+Astronomy

Published Aug 27, 2025

Hopkins researchers help develop technology to broaden search for universe's greatest mystery

Physics+Astronomy

Published Aug 8, 2019

Mathematical model suggests dark matter may have been produced before the big bang during cosmic inflation, when space was expanding rapidly

'Hubble Tension'

Published Nov 28, 2018

Hopkins theorists suggest that an exotic form of dark energy is responsible for a discrepancy in the rate at which the universe expands

Cosmology

Published July 12, 2018

Astronomers calculate most accurate measurement to date of universe's expansion rate, providing further evidence of a physics mystery

Published March 5, 2018

New findings published in 'Nature' suggest dark matter can absorb heat energy, as JHU researchers predicted

Astrophysics

Published March 2, 2018

The universe is expanding faster than expected, and cosmologists aren't sure why

Astrophysics

Published Aug 24, 2016

Astrophysicists from Johns Hopkins propose using mysterious fast radio bursts to help detect dark matter