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Help scientists solve one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe. What is Dark Matter?
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Nobody has any idea what Dark Matter or Energy are, so working on this is really exciting! Dark Matter is responsible for the gravitational effects seen in galaxies, while Dark Energy may be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
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We've got a very big mystery on our hands! Everything we can see in the Universe; you, me, planets, stars and galaxies, only make up 5% of the mass of the Universe. We have very clear evidence that there is a lot more mass, more stuff, out there but we have no idea what it is.
This mysterious stuff is known by scientists as Dark Matter but even the smartest theorists and most advanced technology can't work out what it physically is. We many have a way of solving this mystery by looking for and grouping very high energy particle showers which exist because of Dark Matter. However, it's very difficult for us to predict what these groups will look like and how well hidden they are amongst other particles. We need your help to identify patterns in the world wide detections of high energy particles shared with the CREDO (Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory) collaboration so we can teach computers to better identify them.
Dark Universe Welcome was developed with the help of the ASTERICS Horizon2020 project.
ASTERICS is a project supported by the European Commission Framework Programme Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation action under grant agreement n. 653477