{"id":234857,"date":"2026-04-09T02:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-if-dark-matter-came-in-two-states"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:31:47","slug":"what-if-dark-matter-came-in-two-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/what-if-dark-matter-came-in-two-states","title":{"rendered":"What if dark matter came in two states?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-if-dark-matter-came-in-two-states.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the <i>Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics<\/i>, which aims to redefine how we search for dark matter, showing that it may not be necessary to find the same \u201cclues\u201d everywhere in order to interpret it.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the study suggests that even if we observe a certain type of signal at the center of our galaxy\u2014an excess of gamma radiation that could result from the annihilation of dark matter particles\u2014failing to detect the same signal in other systems, such as dwarf galaxies, is not enough to rule out this explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter, in fact, may not consist of a single particle, but of multiple slightly different components, whose behavior varies depending on the cosmic environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, which aims to redefine how we search for dark matter, showing that it may not be necessary to find the same \u201cclues\u201d everywhere in order to interpret it. [\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-234857","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\/234857","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=234857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}