{"id":20070,"date":"2015-12-17T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/chinas-dark-matter-satellite-launches-era-of-space-science"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:33","slug":"chinas-dark-matter-satellite-launches-era-of-space-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/chinas-dark-matter-satellite-launches-era-of-space-science","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-dark-matter-satellite-launches-era-of-space-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe detector could help to clear up some mysteries. In 2013, the AMS announced it had seen hints of dark matter but so far it has detected too few high-energy particles to say for sure. Though DAMPE lacks the equipment to resolve the conundrum directly, it could reveal if the signal is caused by a different astrophysical source, such as pulsars, says Capell.<\/p>\n<p>Although it will collect fewer incoming photons, DAMPE is better at pinpointing their energy than are existing \u03b3-ray telescopes, such as NASA\u2019s Fermi-LAT, says Miguel Sanchez-Conde, a physicist at the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics in Stockholm. This capability should allow DAMPE to see sharp spikes in radiation predicted by some dark-matter models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/china-s-dark-matter-satellite-launches-era-of-space-science-1.19059\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe detector could help to clear up some mysteries. In 2013, the AMS announced it had seen hints of dark matter but so far it has detected too few high-energy particles to say for sure. Though DAMPE lacks the equipment to resolve the conundrum directly, it could reveal if the signal is caused by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69000,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions\/69000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}