BANGALORE (PTI): Astrophysicists from India and abroad have decided to come together and conduct a joint research on dark matter particles.
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics IIA Bangalore and the Tata institute of fundamental research. are launching a joint program later this year with two American Universities in the search for dark matter Particles, which have been baffling astrophysicists for decades,
‘The American Universities University of California at Berkley and Irvine will also collaborate with the IIA in the incorporation of a Gamma Ray Burst monitoring facility in the proposed 4 m high Himalayan telescope,
Renowned astrophysicists from all over the world, including Rouse Bell Professor at Oxford, Dr.Roger Penrose, Royal Astronomer from the UK, Prof Amold Wolf Andale and Dr.Barry C. Barrish of the California institute of technology, attended the international conference on non-accelerator particle physics, which was also held,
The study on dark matter particles is expected to take &new turn with the launching of the joint program. IIA director, DrRamanath Cowsik, ‘s the author of the more accepted theory on dark matter.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 28, 1994
