Neutrinos may help solve mass mystery

Chicago Sun-Times | June 16, 1996| | Copyright

In the time it takes to read this sentence, trillions of subatomic particles called neutrinos will have shot through your body.

Didn't notice?

That's because neutrinos rarely interact with matter. A neutrino could shoot through a lead wall a million miles thick without hitting anything.

But these ghostly little particles may provide a critical clue to one of astronomy's biggest unsolved mysteries.

Astronomers estimate that less than 10 percent of the mass of the universe is stuff they can see with telescopes, such as stars and galaxies. No one knows where the remaining "dark matter" ...

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