The experiment has directly detected a sudden drop-off in the electrons hitting the satellite.
The first set of results are in -- no dark matter proof yet. But for the research team, the best news is that the machine actually works.
An advanced dark matter detector that hopes to find a rare collision between a dark matter particle and normal matter has just been approved in the US
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its silent search for the missing matter of the universe.
