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UpstractMysterious glow at the Milky Way's center could reshape a major cosmic theory
A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an explanation that could also reshape what we know about dark matter.
Brightness detected in space could be a sign of dark matter self-destructing
A strange gamma-ray glow in the heart of the Milky Way could represent the long-sought “fingerprint” of dark matter particles annihilating, a new study suggests. Researchers who simulated Milky Way–like galaxies found that the mysterious extra gamma radiation coming from the galactic center could be explained either by dark matter annihilation or by millisecond pulsars—and the dark matter hypothesis might even have a slight edge. “Dark matter do…
In the centre of the Milky Way, there is a gamma radiation that nothing seems to explain; yet we have been observing it for almost 20 years. If it could emanate from fast-rotating neutron stars (pulsar milliseconds), some physicists suggest that it is, just as likely, the energy product of the dark matter itself. This is, to date, perhaps the most promising index ever discovered of its existence.
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