{"id":191217,"date":"2024-06-14T06:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/dark-matter-decoded-how-neutron-stars-may-solve-the-universes-biggest-mystery"},"modified":"2024-06-14T06:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:26:36","slug":"dark-matter-decoded-how-neutron-stars-may-solve-the-universes-biggest-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/dark-matter-decoded-how-neutron-stars-may-solve-the-universes-biggest-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter Decoded: How Neutron Stars May Solve the Universe\u2019s Biggest Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-decoded-how-neutron-stars-may-solve-the-universes-biggest-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may be one step closer to unraveling one of the universe\u2019s greatest mysteries. Their recent calculations suggest that neutron stars could play a crucial role in shedding light on the mysterious dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <em>The <i>Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics<\/i><\/em>, physicists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-melbourne\/\">University of Melbourne<\/a>, calculated that energy transferred when dark matter particles collide and annihilate inside cold dead neutron stars can heat the stars up very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously thought that this energy transfer could take a very long time, in some cases, longer than the age of the universe itself, rendering this heating irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may be one step closer to unraveling one of the universe\u2019s greatest mysteries. Their recent calculations suggest that neutron stars could play a crucial role in shedding light on the mysterious dark matter. In a paper published in The Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, physicists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191217","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\/191217","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}