University of Chicago cosmologist Juan Collar believes his group may have spotted a dark matter signal in their detector inside an abandoned mine in Soudan, Minnesota.

University of Chicago cosmologist Juan Collar believes his group may have spotted a dark matter signal in their detector inside an abandoned mine in Soudan Minnesota.

The detector is housed in a 12 million gallon tank of water surrounded by 11,000 light sensors, at the bottom of an abandoned mine 3300 feet underground.