Researchers at IIT-G use neutrinos to unravel the mystery of dark matter’s formation
Everyone should have heard once about black hole and also myths stating that the world will fall down into some black hole.
Physicists have been debating the existence of ‘dark matter’ in our Universe for decades. Though its presence is inferred from its gravitational impact on visible matter, which is thought to make up 27% of the Universe, nothing is known about it because no direct proof for its existence has been uncovered thus far, suggesting it as an unusual type of matter. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, have discovered striking parallels between the nature of Dark Matter and Neutrinos.
Professor of Physics Arunansu Sil and two of his PhD students, Arghyajit Datta and Rishav Roshan of IIT Guwahati’s Physics Department, discover that the creation and production of dark matter can be linked to the formation of neutrino mass in their quest to unravel the nature of dark matter. Physical Review Letters, a major international magazine, has published the research.
