Victoria Mine Lab to Take the Lead in Dark Matter Research

Dark matter is said to be the dark ring produced in the above photo after two galaxies collide. (NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford et al. (Johns Hopkins Univ.) )

A laboratory one kilometre below ground in regional Victoria is set to become the southern hemisphere’s epicentre for dark matter research.

Plans for the $10 million Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory will take shape deep in an unused section of gold mine.