Dark matter: our method for catching ghostly haloes could help unveil what it’s made of – The Conversation UK

The search for dark matter an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe is at a crossroads. Although it was proposed nearly 70 years ago and has been searched for intensely – with large particle colliders, detectors deep underground and even instruments in space it is still nowhere to be found.
But astronomers have promised to leave no stone unturned and have started to cast their net wider out into the galaxy. The idea is to extract information…

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