{"id":223261,"date":"2025-10-11T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/event-horizon-telescope-images-reveal-new-dark-matter-detection-method"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:10:55","slug":"event-horizon-telescope-images-reveal-new-dark-matter-detection-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/event-horizon-telescope-images-reveal-new-dark-matter-detection-method","title":{"rendered":"Event Horizon Telescope images reveal new dark matter detection method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/event-horizon-telescope-images-reveal-new-dark-matter-detection-method2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/yxqg-363n\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a> study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions in black hole images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope can act as ultra-sensitive detectors for the invisible material that makes up most of the universe\u2019s matter.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter makes up roughly 85% of the universe\u2019s matter, but scientists still don\u2019t know what it actually is. While researchers have proposed countless ways to detect it, this study introduces black hole imaging as a fresh detection method\u2014one that comes with some distinct benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The Event Horizon Telescope\u2019s stunning images of supermassive black holes have revealed more than just the geometry of spacetime; they\u2019ve opened an unexpected window into the search for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions in black hole images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope can act as ultra-sensitive detectors for the invisible material that makes up most of the universe\u2019s matter. Dark matter makes up roughly 85% of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223261","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=223261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}