How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Vera Rubin at work at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, ... Kent Ford, in the observation ... The mass of visible stars wasn’t enough to hold the galaxy together.

Vera Rubin’s research forced cosmologists to radically reimagine the cosmos. In the 1960s and ’70s, Rubin’s observations of stars whirling around within galaxies revealed the gravitational ...

In the late 1970s, Vera Rubin and Kent Ford of the Carnegie Institution of Washington stared, confused, at the punch-card readouts from their observations of the Andromeda Galaxy. The vast spiral ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that ... developed ...

Vera Rubin, the astronomer whose work first confirmed the existence of dark matter, has passed away at the age of 88. Along with that groundbreaking discovery, Rubin has a legacy of scientific ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work solidified the case for the existence of the mysterious substance called dark matter, died on December 25.. Rubin, who was 88, had been a favorite among her peers ...

Rubin was born Vera Cooper on July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia. She attended Vassar College, and in the summer of 1947 met Robert J. Rubin, whom she married when she was 19 and he was 21.

The facts on Dr. Rubin’s incredible career and dark matter: 1. As early as 1915, astronomers suspected that some type of matter that was not detectable was affecting gravitational patterns in ...