Dark Matter May Have Begun Much Hotter Than Scientists Thought

Scientists reveal how dark matter formed in the early universe and why its still here

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest debates by showing that dark matter may have started its life far hotter than anyone expected. The work, led by Stephen Henrich, a graduate student in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Minnesota, and co-authored by Keith Olive and Yann Mambrini, appeared in Physical Review Letters, the flagship journal of the American…

Dark Matter May Have Begun Much Hotter Than Scientists Thought

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universit´e Paris-Saclay have challenged a decades-old dark matter theory.