Dark matter no-show spells trouble for WIMPs

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3084, 2016, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The hunt lasted nearly two years, but there was not even a sniff of the quarry. One of the world's leading dark matter detectors has failed to find any candidate particles, suggesting that the dominant model of the stuff may be on its last legs. Dark matter does not emit light and scarcely interacts with normal matter except through gravity, yet appears to account for around 85% of the universe's mass. Without its gravitational pull, galaxies would spin themselves apart.