A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe's missing mass

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A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe's missing mass

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos' mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. (A mysterious entity called dark