Could cosmic rays help solve the dark matter mystery?

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Could cosmic rays help solve the dark matter mystery?


An overabundance of antimatter in showers of charged particles that bombard Earth called cosmic rays could reveal the secrets of dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious “stuff,” a new study suggests.

Dark matter represents such a challenge to scientists because it makes up an estimated 85% of the matter in the cosmos but is effectively invisible because it doesn’t interact with light. That means every atom making up every star, planet, moon, asteroid, comet, human, book, coffee mug, and cat is outweighed by dark matter by about five to one. 

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