Enable members of an international research team to put their hands on what may be the first material effect dark matter during their research in cosmic rays recorded by the International Space Station, is an indication of the approach of solving the riddle of this article, which make up more than a quarter of the universe was not never seen clear.
The team of scientists first on Wednesday during a press conference at the European Organization for Nuclear Research "CERN" near Geneva, to determine the composition of this article mysterious finally contribute to a solution one of the biggest puzzles in the world of physics and the start of new studies on the possible existence of multiple universes and other areas.
The head of the European research project American Samuel Ting The members of the research team monitoring a wave of international positron particles that may be issued by the dark matter.
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He added that the "scale alpha spectroscopy to monitor the magnetic particles would be able to tell us definitively whether these positrons from the effects of dark matter or another source.
Ting said - a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976 - that dark matter, which was one day science fiction has become "one of the most important mysteries of physics today." However, between that is also likely to be issued by the particles rotating neutron stars emit flashes of radiation.
However, the physics expert at the European Organization for Research Pauline Gagnon said that nuclear "accurate measure of alpha may make the possibility of constipation first thread of dark matter is really soon."
It was believed - and until last week - that dark matter makes up about 24% of the universe, while an ordinary matter consisting of galaxies, stars and planets about 4.6%.
However, the team's Planck satellite for the European Space Agency said that a chart of the echoes of the universe at the beginning of creation showed that dark matter constitutes 26.8%, while an ordinary matter 4.9%.
