{"id":183742,"date":"2024-02-26T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-research-suggests-explosive-axion-stars-could-pinpoint-where-and-what-dark-matter-is"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:28:06","slug":"new-research-suggests-explosive-axion-stars-could-pinpoint-where-and-what-dark-matter-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-research-suggests-explosive-axion-stars-could-pinpoint-where-and-what-dark-matter-is","title":{"rendered":"New research suggests explosive \u2018axion stars\u2019 could pinpoint where and what dark matter is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-suggests-explosive-axion-stars-could-pinpoint-where-and-what-dark-matter-is2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We could be closer to understanding the mystery behind what dark matter is, following new research from physicists at King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n<p>First theorized in 1977, axions are a hypothetical, light-mass particle that have been suggested as a possible contender for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a>, due to the heat they give off. However, due to the range of sizes and masses they could possibly be, their conclusive identification has been difficult.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.109.043018\">papers<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.109.043019\">Physical Review D<\/a>, Liina Chung-Jukko, Professors Malcolm Fairbairn, Eugene Lim, Dr. David Marsh and collaborators have suggested a new approach to locate this \u2018wonder particle\u2019 that could explain both <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark energy<\/a> and dark matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could be closer to understanding the mystery behind what dark matter is, following new research from physicists at King\u2019s College London. First theorized in 1977, axions are a hypothetical, light-mass particle that have been suggested as a possible contender for dark matter, due to the heat they give off. However, due to the range [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183742","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\/183742","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}