Building ultra-sensitive detectors deep underground (to shield them from cosmic rays) in hopes of capturing the rare moment a dark matter particle collisions with normal matter.
is one of the most profound mysteries in modern astrophysics and cosmology. Though it makes up about 27% of the universe's total mass-energy budget —outmassing normal, visible matter by a ratio of roughly 5 to 1—we cannot see it directly. 🌌 What is Dark Matter? La materia oscura
The afterglow of the Big Bang contains fluctuations that perfectly match models requiring large amounts of cold dark matter to have seeded the formation of the early universe. 🔬 Leading Theories on Its Nature 🌌 What is Dark Matter
Unknown; it is not made of the same protons, neutrons, and electrons (baryonic matter) that make up stars, planets, and human beings. Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light. Because it does not interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, it is completely invisible to traditional telescopes.
Using space telescopes like Fermi to look for gamma rays or antimatter produced when dark matter particles annihilate each other in deep space.
Extremely light, theoretical particles originally proposed to solve problems in quantum chromodynamics.