ANOTHER dark matter experiment finds nothing -- Why keep doing it?
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80% of all matter in the universe is made up of dark matter, astrophysicists say. Yet they can't seem to find any evidence for the particles that dark matter is supposedly made up of. A new experiment used the entirely planet Jupiter as a dark matter detector. It didn't find any evidence of the stuff, but this will make some particle detectors on earth superfluous. Let’s have a look.
Paper here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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