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Even with the advances of telescopes across all electromagnetic wavelengths on Earth and space, additional components of the universe can be detected with new experiments. The development of new methods for detecting and map** dark matter, using telescopes and microlensing, are described, along with laboratory experiments to detect dark matter particles on Earth. Huge underground laboratories across the Earth search for the ghostly presence of WIMP particles, which could include axions, neutrinos, or other particles yet to be detected in accelerator laboratories. The details of these underground experiments and possible future discoveries are described, along with the huge ICECube experiment in Antarctica, which can also operate as something like a neutrino telescope. Finally, the development of the LIGO gravitational wave detector has ushered in a new era of gravitational wave astronomy, and the future of this field using a global network of interferometers, and the space-based LISA detector give promise for detecting thousands of black holes, neutron stars and other invisible components of our universe.
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Penprase, B.E. (2023). Exploring the Invisible Universe. In: Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27890-7_14
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