Oscura: La Materia

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.

A hypothesized type of neutrino that does not interact via the weak force at all, making them harder to detect than regular neutrinos. 🛰️ Current Search Efforts La materia oscura

Using space telescopes like Fermi to look for gamma rays or antimatter produced when dark matter particles annihilate each other in deep space. Attempting to smash regular particles together at extreme

Unknown; it is not made of the same protons, neutrons, and electrons (baryonic matter) that make up stars, planets, and human beings. Unknown; it is not made of the same

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?

Extremely light, theoretical particles originally proposed to solve problems in quantum chromodynamics.