Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter
- Written by Hugh Lippincott, Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
The inside of the LZ outer detector. The LZ is a super sensitive machine that may one day detect a dark matter particle. Matt Kapust, SURF, CC BY-SAPhysicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.” But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a...
