SHERBROOKE RESEACHERS’ MICROCHIP-LINKED LIGHT DETECTOR MAY UNVEIL SECRETS OF DARK MATTERSHERBROOKE RESEACHERS’ MICROCHIP-LINKED LIGHT DETECTOR MAY UNVEIL SECRETS OF DARK MATTER
February 22nd, 2023
Researchers at the University of Sherbrooke, in Québec, supported by CMC Microsystems, are helping build sensors to detect ‘dark matter’ - the unknown substance that scientists think makes up about 27% of the universe. That, combined with the equally undetectable dark energy (68% of the universe says physics research centre CERN), can be inferred by its gravitational pull on stars and planets. But scientists have yet to create sensors to detect and examine dark matter. “Finding out what it consists of is a major question for modern science,” says ...
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