Scientists use ‘cosmic radio’ detector to find elusive dark matter

‘Cosmic radio’ dark matter detector may unlock Universe’s secrets in 15 years

Scientists are developing a dark matter detector that could identify axions and reveal the Universe’s invisible mass within 15 years.

Scientists use ‘cosmic radio’ detector to find elusive dark matter

Dark matter remains one of science’s greatest mysteries, possibly making up 85% of all matter in the universe. Despite decades of research, its exact nature is unknown. One leading candidate to explain this invisible substance is the axion, a tiny particle proposed by physicists decades ago. Now, researchers may finally have a tool to find these hidden particles—a detector described as a “cosmic radio” capable of capturing dark matter signals th…

Thanks to an innovative material based on manganese-bismuth telluride, researchers have succeeded in detecting quasi-particles with properties similar to those of the axions, these hypothetical particles which are among the possible candidates to constitute black matter. This is an unprecedented direct observation of these quasi-particles, which could eventually serve as a relay to detect the true axions and, potentially, confirm the existence o…