How to Use dark matter in a Sentence

dark matter

noun
  • That lightless, see-through murk is dark matter.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Further, the machine could help us in the hunt for dark matter.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
  • But how does a galaxy end up with few or no stars and mostly dark matter?
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Li and his colleagues assume that the source of the mass is dark matter.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This quiz will test your knowledge of the strange, shadowy realm of dark matter.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • However, what has been less clear is whether dark matter obeys these same four forces.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • If both signals share the same origin, the case for dark matter would grow stronger.
    — Christopher Karwin, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • This elusive substance is known as dark matter.
    — Christopher Karwin, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • Most of the mass comes from black holes and dark matter, which are tough to measure with a telescope.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Add one part dark matter, two parts dark energy and just a dash of matter.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Some galaxies don’t have much dark matter.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 May 2026
  • How is dark matter hidden in plain sight, and what are its qualities?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The universe has a dark side—it’s filled with dark matter and dark energy.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The question has always been, how small can clumps of cold dark matter become?
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Astronomers have found a distant galaxy where there is no dark matter.
    — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The black holes would cause this dark matter to vibrate like a bell rather than dispersing.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Simple-seeming facts emerge from a dark matter of sources and methods.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 23 June 2023
  • Scientists can study this map to see how dark matter has clumped up over billions of years.
    — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But beyond that, scientists still don't know too much about dark matter.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Like a mountain peak, sharp and pointy, where dark matter congregates.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Quantum atomic clocks are an integral part of the search for dark matter in a key way.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022
  • Detecting this change would be a sign that a dark matter particle has passed by.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
  • But no one knows what the half-life of putative particles of dark matter would be.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
  • And candidates for the cosmic dark matter should appear in the string math as well.
    — Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
  • What is dark matter and what is antimatter?
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Boxed in with ceilings and dark matter, the level designers make full use of each grid.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • As Froese mentions, the same could be said of dark matter or dark energy.
    — Conor Feehly, Big Think, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Despite the size, the images could be the key to cracking the case of what dark matter truly is.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 22 July 2025
  • Perhaps the most famous of these mysteries is that of dark matter.
    — Dan Hooper, Time, 6 Dec. 2019
  • And can small dark matter clumps exist without forming stars inside them?
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025

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