Tag: axions

• My favorite dark matter candidate

  Roughly 85% of the mass in the Universe isn’t made of electrons, atoms, and so forth: it’s not the stuff familiar from daily life. The name we give our ignorance is dark matter, which we suspect is made of a particle of some type. We see its effects in the motion of stars and gas…

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 20, 2014

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Cosmology

  axions, dark matter, dark matter detectors, particle physics