{"id":219121,"date":"2025-07-31T04:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/study-outlines-alternative-approach-to-detecting-inelastic-dark-matter-particles"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:26:48","slug":"study-outlines-alternative-approach-to-detecting-inelastic-dark-matter-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/study-outlines-alternative-approach-to-detecting-inelastic-dark-matter-particles","title":{"rendered":"Study outlines alternative approach to detecting inelastic dark matter particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-outlines-alternative-approach-to-detecting-inelastic-dark-matter-particles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is now understood that all known matter, i.e., studied by science and harnessed by technology, constitutes only 5% of the content of the universe. The rest is composed of two unknown components: dark matter (about 27%) and dark energy (about 68%). This calculation, confirmed decades ago, continues to surprise both lay people and scientists alike.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of dark matter (DM), there is abundant evidence that it really exists, all resulting from its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+interaction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational interaction<\/a> with ordinary matter. This evidence comes from sources such as the rotation curves of stars in galaxies, discrepancies in the movement of galaxies in clusters, the formation of large-scale structures in the universe, and cosmic background radiation, which is distributed uniformly throughout space.<\/p>\n<p>Despite knowing with a high degree of certainty that DM exists, we do not know what it is. Several models proposed thus far have failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now understood that all known matter, i.e., studied by science and harnessed by technology, constitutes only 5% of the content of the universe. The rest is composed of two unknown components: dark matter (about 27%) and dark energy (about 68%). This calculation, confirmed decades ago, continues to surprise both lay people and scientists [\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-219121","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\/219121","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=219121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}