'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Scott Lord from Pexels Published in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and others have shared the foundation of what they believe will be the most accurate dark matter detector to date. Dark matter is the unobservable form of matter that could make up as much as 85% of mass in the universe, but scientists are not sure exactly what it is. Axions are one of the leading candidates for dark matter. These are tiny, weakly interacting particles that could exist in the universe—responsible for gravitational effects in space which cannot yet be explained. Axions are thought to have a frequency like a wave, but scientists do not know where they exist on the electromagnetic spectrum—though they are thought to range from kilohertz, a frequency that can be heard by ... Read full article.