Prof. Ilan Levine gave a public presentation regarding dark matter and the contributions that he, and his students and collaborators, continue to make as part of international efforts to understand what it is. This was part of the Our Universe Revealed series of lectures being jointly organized by the University of Notre Dame and IU South Bend.
Clicking on the image below, or the following URL, should open a video recording of the presentation, complete with an introduction by IUSB’s Prof. Deb Marr: https://www.youtube.com/.
Abstract: Since the 1930s, there has been astronomical evidence that most of the mass of the universe is invisible to us, different from what we can feel through our five senses. The presence of this “Dark Matter” has only been revealed by its aggregate gravitational effects on galaxies, galaxy clusters and within the wider universe. Dark matter is like a ghost—it is always around us, yet we do not feel it. But without dark matter, we would not exist. Although no experiment has convincingly detected dark matter, Professor Levine will share the reasons why scientists are convinced that this ghostly material exists, and describe the research done by IU South Bend scientists and international collaborators to finally detect the particles of dark matter.
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