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    Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of dark matter
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    Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of dark matter

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    1. Hopp5432 on

      This title is absolutely wild. What’s next, red giants are closing in on the dwarves

    2. The_Rise_Daily on

      # TLDR:

      * Researchers based in the UK and Hawaii propose dark dwarf stars, potentially composed of dark matter particles, may reside hidden within the dense core region at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
      * Detecting these hypothetical dark dwarfs would require sensitive gravitational observations or indirect detection of annihilation products from dark matter interactions within them.
      * Discovering dark dwarfs could provide unprecedented direct evidence about the particle nature of dark matter, solving a major mystery in cosmology and particle physics.

    3. TheFeshy on

      Doesn’t the distribution of angular speed in galaxies that we observe dictate that the dark matter – at least, the dark matter responsible for those rotation curves – *can’t* be clustered in the core?

      Which isn’t to say these sorts of dark stars can’t or don’t exist, just that they can’t explain the evidence we have for dark matter.

    4. Thunderbird_Anthares on

      I may be making a fool of myself, but…. am i the only one that thinks “dark matter” is complete bullshit?

      Whats more likely, and unknown form of matter that would conveniently explain the mass differences without threatening our understanding of physics, but nobody ever saw any direct sign of it anywhere…. or that we just dont understand what we are seeing in the first place?

      Idk, maybe im getting old.