Wobbling Galaxies: Evidence of Dark Matter Interactions?
Do wobbling galaxies at the center of galaxy clusters indicate interactions between dark matter particles?
Searching for Evidence of Dark Matter in Stellar Streams
Can we hunt down invisible dark matter halos around the Milky Way using the evidence they leave behind as they pass through stellar streams?
The Milky Way – Tearing Apart Friendships for Billions of Years
Do the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies have their own satellites?
Astrobites: A Look back at 2016!
A Happy New Year from everyone at Astrobites! Read on to find out about our fun events, collaborations and top-read articles in the last 12 months!
The unsung contributions of Vera Rubin: her mission in retrospect
In today’s bite, we celebrate the diversity of Vera Rubin’s life and work, and spread a bit of her message to the young astronomers of the world.
How one person discovered the majority of the universe – The work of Vera Rubin
With the death of Vera Rubin, we retrace the steps on her most important discovery. From watching the speed of stars and gas orbiting a galaxy she found a mysterious quirk in the results, and followed it to find inescapable evidence that led to the discovery of invisible and mysterious matter, 5 times more massive than all other matter in the Universe.