{"id":130620,"date":"2021-11-14T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dark-matter-birthed-more-of-itself-from-regular-matter-claims-wild-new-paper"},"modified":"2021-11-14T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:23:38","slug":"dark-matter-birthed-more-of-itself-from-regular-matter-claims-wild-new-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dark-matter-birthed-more-of-itself-from-regular-matter-claims-wild-new-paper","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter Birthed More of Itself From Regular Matter, Claims Wild New Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-birthed-more-of-itself-from-regular-matter-claims-wild-new-paper2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot we still don\u2019t know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"dark matter\">dark matter<\/a> \u2013 that mysterious, invisible mass that could make up as much as 85 percent of everything around us \u2013 but a new paper outlines a rather unusual hypothesis about the very creation of the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In short: dark matter creates dark matter. The idea is that at some point in the early stages of the Universe, dark matter particles were able to create more dark matter particles out of particles of regular matter, which would go some way to explaining why there\u2019s now so much of the stuff about.<\/p>\n<p>The new research builds on <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.39.165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier proposals<\/a> of a \u2018thermal bath\u2019, where regular matter in the form of plasma produced the first bits of dark matter \u2013 initial particles which could then have had the power to transform heat bath particles into more dark matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot we still don\u2019t know about dark matter \u2013 that mysterious, invisible mass that could make up as much as 85 percent of everything around us \u2013 but a new paper outlines a rather unusual hypothesis about the very creation of the stuff. In short: dark matter creates dark matter. The idea is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}