Detecting Dark Matter

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Scientist prisca is working on an experiment at the bottom of a mine. The really hard thing about finding dark matter is k get just passes right through normal matter. There are billions and trillions of these dark matter particles coming through the earth. But mostly they don't interact with a detector, because they're so weakly interacting. Every once in a while, a dark matter particle might just like, nudge little bit of a nucleus of some atom of normal matter to give it a tiny shiver that we can detect.

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer.

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