{"id":90983,"date":"2019-05-20T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/is-dark-matter-made-of-axions-black-holes-may-reveal-the-answer"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:02:53","slug":"is-dark-matter-made-of-axions-black-holes-may-reveal-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/is-dark-matter-made-of-axions-black-holes-may-reveal-the-answer","title":{"rendered":"Is dark matter made of axions? Black holes may reveal the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVZN2F4TSNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is dark matter made of? It\u2019s one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark matter is out there, since we can see its obvious gravitational influence on everything from galaxies to the evolution of the entire universe, but we don\u2019t know what it is. Our best guess is that it\u2019s some sort of weird new particle that doesn\u2019t like to talk to normal matter very often (otherwise, we would have seen it by now). One possibility is that it\u2019s an exotic hypothetical kind of particle known as an axion, and a team of astronomers are using none other than black holes to try to get a glimpse into this strange new cosmic critter.<\/p>\n<p><b>Axion Agenda<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be honest with you, we don\u2019t know if axions exist. They were invented to explain a conundrum in high-energy physics. There\u2019s a certain kind of symmetry in nature in which switching out the electric charges of all particles in a random interaction and running the process in the mirror produces the exact same result. This is known as charge and parity symmetry, or CP-symmetry for short.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-dark-axions-black-holes-reveal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is dark matter made of? It\u2019s one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark matter is out there, since we can see its obvious gravitational influence on everything from galaxies to the evolution of the entire universe, but we don\u2019t know what it is. Our best guess is that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90983","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}