Dead stars may salvage dark matter hunt

• Autores: Anil Ananthaswamy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3054, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Watching the death spirals of stars may succeed where searches deep underground have failed. Last month, the Large Underground Xenon experiment reported its latest findings: nothing. Located about 1.5 kilometres below ground in the Black Hills of South Dakota, LUX is seeking so-called weakly interacting massive particles--the most favored candidate for the dark matter that cosmologists think makes up most of the universe's mass.