The search for the elusive dark matter has received a blow once again. The team of scientists who were conducting the most sensitive dark matter research till date have declared that they have found no evidence of it so far.
In the announcement that took place at an international conference in Sheffield, England, the research team working with the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) explained how dark matter continues to be a mystery for all. The team declared that it has found no evidence of dark matter in their recent study, despite increasing the sensitivity of their experiment for running the final test.
According to researcher Rick Gaitskell of the Brown University, the team gave every opportunity to the dark matter to become visible to them, however, it chose not to. The researchers built on an experiment that was highly sensitive and has delivered multiple new results in the past few years.
It is estimated that 26.8 percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, while only 4.9 percent of it is made up of the planets, galaxies and stars that the people can see. The remaining 68.3 percent constitutes just dark energy.
Like all previous experiments, LUX collaboration did not work either. However, the research team had initially hoped that a huge upgrade to the sensitivity of the experiment may prove lucky in the final run. Specifically, they wanted to confirm the hints of dark matter signal in data, which was collected by the Fermi space telescope.
However, not of this came true and all the hopes were dashed. The team did not find any clue related to dark clue when they run the data in the final run. Gaitskell later said that it would have been wonderful if the team would have been able to clearly see the dark matter signals with the help of improves sensitivity.
