{"id":225993,"date":"2025-11-27T00:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dark-matter-may-have-finally-been-detected-in-our-galaxys-glow"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:24:04","slug":"dark-matter-may-have-finally-been-detected-in-our-galaxys-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dark-matter-may-have-finally-been-detected-in-our-galaxys-glow","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter May Have Finally Been Detected in Our Galaxy\u2019s Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-may-have-finally-been-detected-in-our-galaxys-glow.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A strange, never-before-seen glow in the halo of our galaxy may be the strongest dark-matter breadcrumb yet.<\/p>\n<p>A new analysis of 15 years\u2019 worth of data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope\">Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope<\/a> reveals a glow of unusually high-energy gamma rays that cannot easily be attributed to any known source.<\/p>\n<p>According to astronomer Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo in Japan, it may be the radiation produced when hypothetical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">dark matter<\/a> particles collide and wipe out one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange, never-before-seen glow in the halo of our galaxy may be the strongest dark-matter breadcrumb yet. A new analysis of 15 years\u2019 worth of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals a glow of unusually high-energy gamma rays that cannot easily be attributed to any known source. According to astronomer Tomonori Totani of [\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-225993","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\/225993","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=225993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}