{"id":40337,"date":"2025-11-01T22:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=40337"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:04:49","slug":"could-a-faint-glow-in-the-milky-way-be-dark-matterutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/01\/could-a-faint-glow-in-the-milky-way-be-dark-matterutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a Faint Glow in the Milky Way Be Dark Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"text-179932366\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;A nearby galaxy once thought to be dominated by dark matter seems to have a surprise supermassive black hole at its centre,&#8221; reports <em>New Scientist<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Yet scientists &#8220;are convinced dark matter is out there,&#8221; writes <em>Space.com<\/em>. &#8220;The quest to detect it arguably remains both one of the most frustrating and most exhilarating challenges in modern physics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now they report that the century-old mystery of dark matter \u2014 the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together \u2014 &#8220;just got a modern clue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Scientists say they may be one step closer to confirming the existence of this elusive material, thanks to new simulations suggesting that a faint glow at the center of the Milky Way could be dark matter&#8217;s long-sought signature. &#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to actually prove, but it does seem likely,&#8221; Moorits Muru of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam in Germany, who led the new study, told Space.com&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The findings, show that dark matter near the Milky Way&#8217;s center might not form a perfect sphere as scientists long thought. Instead, it appears flattened, almost egg-shaped, and that shape closely mirrors the pattern of mysterious gamma rays observed by NASA&#8217;s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope&#8230;  Using powerful supercomputers, [the researchers] recreated how the Milky Way formed, including billions of years of violent collisions and mergers with smaller galaxies. Those violent events, the researchers found, left deep &#8220;fingerprints&#8221; on the way dark matter is distributed in the galactic core&#8230;. matching the pattern of gamma-ray emission Fermi has observed, the new study reports&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If the excess truly arises from dark matter collisions, it would mark the first indirect evidence that weakly interacting massive particles [WIMPs], a leading dark matter candidate, really exist&#8230;<br \/>\n <br \/>&#8220;We have run dozens of direct detection experiments around the globe hunting for WIMPS,&#8221; notes<br \/>\nPhys.org, in an article titled &#8220;The Empty Search for Dark Matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>We have run dozens of direct detection experiments around the globe hunting for WIMPS \u2014 dark matter particles in this particular mass range. And they&#8217;re not all the same kind of experiments. There are also the scintillators, which use a giant vat of liquefied noble gas, like several tons of xenon. They wait for a dark matter particle to strike the xenon and cause it to scintillate, which is a fancy science word for &#8220;sparkle.&#8221; We see the sparkle; we detect dark matter&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just one example of a broader class of dark matter candidates, with delightful names like Q-balls, WIMPzillas, and sterile neutrinos. We&#8217;ve tuned our different experiments to capture different mass ranges or interaction strengths to cover as much of that wide dark matter spectrum as possible. We&#8217;ve even tried to manufacture various kinds of dark matter in our particle collider experiments.\n<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve found nothing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Faint #Glow #Milky #Dark #Matter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A nearby galaxy once thought to be dominated by dark matter seems to have a surprise supermassive black hole at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40338,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions\/40338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}