Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. There is a vast spherical region made up of dark matter particles, at the centre of spiral galaxies. This region has two defining characteristics: a density that is constantly out to a certain radius that amazingly expands over time, while the density decreases. A recent study explored this in detail. Science News | Study Discusses Distant Galaxies and True Nature of Dark Matter.
Credits: Photo courtesy of the researcher. Caption: Mark Vogelsberger and his colleagues created simulations showing that competing models of dark matter produce primordial star-forming regions that look very different from one another. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers
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Mark Vogelsberger, an associate professor of physics at MIT, has received the 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize in a collaboration led by Phillip Mocz, a postdoc at Princeton University. Their research presents a novel simulation of the early universe with a theorized ultralight, or “fuzzy,” dark matter particle. The Buchalter Prize awarded the researchers Third Prize and $2,500 for their boundary-pushing work in cosmology.