SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 19 Episode 23 Show Notes

The search to solve the mystery of Dark Matter
Scientists may be closing in on that mysterious substance called Dark Matter. A slew of new experiments and detectors are either operational or under construction to discover what makes up the unknown 80 percent of all the matter in the universe. 

NASA's Fermi poised to pin down gravitational wave sources
Astronomers say they detected a sudden burst of Gamma Ray energy from the same region of space as the gravitational waves detected last September from a pair of merging black holes over a billion light years away. If confirmed, the would represent both the first evidence of electromagnetic radiation from the gravitational wave event, and also the first evidence contradicting existing hypothesis that black holes merge "cleanly," without producing any sort of light. 
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Venus Express’s demise sheds light on the planet’s polar atmosphere
Some of the final results sent back by the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission before the probes suicide plunge through the planet’s atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves -- and, at an average temperature far colder than anywhere on Earth.

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