The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle collider, has been reactivated after being out of commission for two years.
Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research will be looking to utilize the collider’s now-upgraded capabilities to learn more about dark matter — that super elusive particle that makes up 23 percent of the universe.
“About 95 percent of the universe is still mysterious,” University of Delaware theoretical physicist Qaisar Shafi told Delaware First Media’s Eli Chen.
And if the researchers at CERN do discover dark matter?
“It would be a really exciting time for physics,” Shafi said. “It would be the first signal for really new physics at a fundamental level for three or four decades.”
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