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Panich52

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Sun Jun 28, 2015, 09:49 AM Jun 2015

Black holes may make ideal dark matter labs

Black holes may make ideal dark matter labs

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A new computer simulation shows that dark matter particles colliding in the extreme gravity of a black hole can produce strong, potentially observable gamma-ray light. Detecting this emission would provide astronomers with a new tool for understanding both black holes and the nature of dark matter, an elusive substance accounting for most of the mass of the universe that neither reflects, absorbs nor emits light.

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