Searching For Elusive Dark Matter, India Reaches for The Skies At Hanle
NDTV
The MACE (Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment Telescope) has a diameter of 21 meters, weighs 180 tonnes and has 356 mirror panels. It is the largest telescope in Asia
It may come as a surprise but today we know only about five percent of the total Universe, which is the part we see, a massive ninety-five percent is unseen and unknown. This is made up of 24 per cent Dark Matter and 71 per cent as Dark Energy, these are still unknowns and scientists are trying to decipher this big-big mystery.
India joined the search for the elusive Dark Matter by setting up a laboratory almost half a kilometre below the Earth's surface at Jadugoda in Jharkhand in 2017. Now to add to the heft, India has set up the world's highest Gamma-ray telescope at Hanle in Ladakh at an altitude of almost 4,300 metres above sea level.
Dr A K Mohanty, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and India's nuclear chief says the search for Dark Energy and Dark Matter continues unabated.
