{"id":758034,"date":"2026-09-02T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758034\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:02:09","slug":"bristol-scientists-may-have-found-first-evidence-of-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758034\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol scientists may have found first evidence of dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists believe they may be one step closer to detecting dark matter for the first time, but the findings have not been verified by independent researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists from the University of Bristol were part of a two-year study to try and measure the invisible substance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/videos\/cp8yyj5j2j8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thought to make up over 85% of the universe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Using a sensitive detector in an an underground laboratory in the US, the researchers saw an atom and mystery particle colliding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lead researcher physicist Dr Sam Eriksen said it could be &#8220;the first step in understanding dark matter as a particle&#8221;, but further research could also reveal that the particle is not related to dark matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Following a huge amount of scientific effort, this is incredibly exciting,&#8221; the University of Bristol senior research associate added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although scientists have long been certain of the existence of dark matter, because it is invisible as it reflects no light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While it is thought to make up the majority of mass in the universe, it has never been directly detected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists believe they may be one step closer to detecting dark matter for the first time, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}