Dark matter may come in more than just one form. One hypothesis suggests that some of it exists as axion quark nuggets ...

Quark nugget dark matter models propose that dark matter may consist of macroscopic objects formed from bound collections of quarks in a stable configuration. These models, which include variants such ...

The ALICE experiment at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their ...

Scientists working with theLarge Hadron Collider (LHC) have taken a giant leap forward in understanding the conditions that ...

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse. Electrons ...

Dec. 14, 2006 — According to the “Strange Matter Hypothesis,” which gained popularity in the paranormal 1980’s, nuclear matter, too, can be strange. The hypothesis suggests that small conglomerations ...

Ground-based radio telescopes, gravitational wave detectors, and a space-based X-ray telescope (right) all measure neutron stars (top left, shown merging), lending insight into the pairing of ...

Quark matter may join solid, liquids, gases, and plasmas as a newly-understood state of matter. Far from being exotic, a new study suggests that quark matter could make up a large percentage of the ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2502755.stm<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> A group of researchers have ...

Nearly every object we interact with in our lives has a mass, but where does this mass come from? Modern physics says matter ...

Illustration of the new method: the researchers use five-dimensional black holes (right) to calculate the phase diagram of strongly coupled matter (middle), enabling simulations of neutron star ...