Tuesday 9 April 2013

Space Station scope detects evidence of dark matter




Dark matter is an unknown thing which holds the galaxy together. Scientists have gathered more clues to what it is. A massive science instrument that is spinning the globe aboard the International Space Station may have provided its first glimpse of what may be dark matter. It makes up 25% of the universe. Scientists have known it exists due to its gravitational pull on galaxies and light. So far, equipment has been unable to detect what this matter is.

But recent information from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, the most sensitive particle physics spectrometer, says it detected “evidence of a new physics phenomena”



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