The Challenging Search for Elusive Dark Matter

with Katherine Freese | Cosmologist | Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin

Astrophysicist Katherine Freese explores the origins and composition of our universe, a quarter of which is thought to be comprised of dark matter, and how scientists are searching for the elusive particles that might comprise dark matter.

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Module 1

Origins of Dark Matter

1.1 History of the Dark Matter...

1.2 Longest Outstanding Problem...

1.3 Dark Matter History Summary

1.4 Rotation Curves

1.5 Demonstration

Module 2

Searching for Dark Matter

2.1 Evidence for Dark Matter

2.2 Katherine Freese Q&A

2.3 Dark Matter Evidence Summary

2.4 Demonstration

2.5 Dark Matter Candidates

Module 3

Future of Dark Matter Research

3.1 Next Steps in the Search for...

3.2 A Galaxy with Only Dark Matter?

3.3 Katherine Freese Q&A

3.5 WIMP Directionality Revealed...

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