Portraits of darkness

• Autores: Robert Adler
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2932, 2013, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Several experiments deep underground have recently seen signs of something that might--just might--be dark matter. In space, too, detectors are tracking radiation that could signal the very same dark particles colliding and annihilating in the galaxy. Dan Hooper, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, believes that people may already have glimpsed dark matter. If Hooper's hunch is right, the findings challenge the understanding of what dark matter is. The stuff that makes up 85% of matter in the universe might be even stranger than many imagined. Here, Adler investigates whether humans are finally on the verge of unveiling dark matter.