Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Mysterious Signal

Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Mysterious Signal

Dark matter, the invisible stuff that scientists believe makes up around 85 percent of the mass in the universe, remains one of science's biggest mysteries. As far as anyone has been able to establish, it can't be directly observed. The only way we know about its existence is inferred from the gravitational effects it exerts on stars and galaxies. But as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature, an international team of researcher…

At the Bochumer Planetarium, Castroper Straße 67, Dr. Elisa Pueschel from Bochum's Ruhr University is a guest on Wednesday, April 30, at 8 p.m. In her lecture, she reports on exciting new results and perspectives in the search for the mysterious "Dark Matter". It accounts for an estimated 85 percent of matter in the universe, but its nature is enigmatic. While visible matter interacts easily with light, this does "Dark Matter" not – that's why i…