{"id":216290,"date":"2025-06-20T02:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/escaping-cosmic-strings-how-dark-photons-could-finally-work-as-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:17:43","slug":"escaping-cosmic-strings-how-dark-photons-could-finally-work-as-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/escaping-cosmic-strings-how-dark-photons-could-finally-work-as-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Escaping cosmic strings: How dark photons could finally work as dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/escaping-cosmic-strings-how-dark-photons-could-finally-work-as-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers, in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.211002\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> paper<\/a>, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark photons to be considered serious candidates for dark matter, with promising implications for detection efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Around 85% of all matter is believed to be dark matter, yet this elusive substance continues to puzzle scientists because it cannot be observed directly.<\/p>\n<p>One of the candidates for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter particles<\/a> is dark photons. These hypothetical particles are similar to regular photons but have mass and interact only weakly with normal matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark photons to be considered serious candidates for dark matter, with promising implications for detection efforts. Around 85% of all matter is believed to be dark matter, yet this elusive substance continues to puzzle scientists because it cannot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216290","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\/216290","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}