Physics
Date:
04/20/2015
posted on April 20, 2015
MSI PI Liliya Williams, a professor at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics (College of Science and Engineering), was part of a team that has discovered dark matter interacting with a force other than gravity. The research, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, was led by researchers at Durham University in the UK. It is significant because it potentially disproves the theory that states that dark matter only interacts with gravity. This story has received considerable media attention, this articles quoting Professor Williams appearing on the websites below.
Professor Williams uses the MSI supercomputers to run code that produces reconstructions of galactic clusters.