Synonyms for dark matter
dark mat·ter

Princeton's WordNet

1. dark matternoun

   (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force

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1. Jonathan Davis:

   These telescopes were designed to look for diffuse light around galaxies. Not in the context of dark matter, but you can repurpose the data to look for this glow, [The Dragonfly telescopes] are really good at looking for this high contrast between the really bright galactic center and the really dim outskirts of galaxies.

2. Luca Malgeri:

   The only thing we really know is that there is 'new physics' because the model that we have is not complete, it might be linked to dark matter or it might not. It might be linked to something totally new.

3. Jonathan Davis:

   We know dark matter exists around galaxies and we want to ask — if light from the galaxy can scatter off the dark matter, like a dust cloud, can you actually observe this light?

4. Dave Charlton:

   We don't know what dark matter is, but maybe there is a place where we can find it (in the LHC).

5. Masashi Chiba:

   This discovery implies hundreds of faint dwarf satellites waiting to be discovered in the halo of the Milky Way, how many satellites are indeed there and what properties they have, will give us an important clue of understanding how the Milky Way formed and how dark matter contributed to it.