UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 1 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - For the better part of a century, researchers have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe but has never been directly detected.
Now, a new analysis from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment has recorded a single particle interaction that researchers have great difficulty explaining with known background signals from normal matter. The result does not yet meet the statistical threshold required to claim a discovery, but it is the most compelling hint of dark matter reported by the experiment to date.
"We expect dark matter interactions to ...