April 15, 2011
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has perhaps shed a tad more light on the subject – by not making a detection in the first 100 days of the [...]
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October 1, 2009
WIMPs are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, hypothetical particles which may be the main (or only) component of Dark Matter, a form of matter which emits and absorbs no light and which comprises approx 75% of all mass in the observable universe. The ‘weakly’ is a bit of a pun; WIMPs would interact with themselves and [...]
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