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
Attempting to smash regular particles together at extreme energies in the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) to recreate the conditions of the early universe and manufacture dark matter in a lab. 🌌 What is Dark Matter
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 🔬 Leading Theories on Its Nature