Dark matter may make up 27% of the Universe’s energy density, compared to just 5% of normal (atomic) matter, but in our Solar System, it’s notoriously sparse. In particular, there’s just a nanogram’s worth per cubic kilometer, which makes the fact that we’ve never directly detected it seem inevitable.
But recent work has demonstrated that Earth and all the planets leave a ‘wake’ of dark matter where the density is enhanced by a billion times or more. Time to go put those dark matter detectors where they belong: in the path of these dark matter hairs….
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