New ultra-sensitive instrument aims to detect hints of elusive dark matter particles
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
There is five times more dark matter in the universe than "normal" matter—the atoms and molecules that make up the familiar world. Yet, it is still unknown what this dominant dark component actually is. On Nov. 11 an international collaboration of scientists inaugurated the new XENON1T instrument designed to search for dark matter with unprecedented sensitivity at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy.