{"id":310359,"date":"2025-11-27T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:07:10","slug":"scientists-may-have-caught-first-real-glimpse-of-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310359\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have caught first real glimpse of dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key idea behind the findings is that if dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles \u2014 known as WIMPs \u2014 occasional collisions between them could produce gamma rays. This latest halo-like signal exhibits the energy signatures expected from such interactions. Researchers studying galaxy motion, gravitational lensing and large-scale cosmic structures have long argued that visible matter alone cannot account for the universe\u2019s architecture.<\/p>\n<p>A long quest reaches a promising moment<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have pursued direct evidence of dark matter for nearly a century. Over time, various experiments and sky surveys have hinted at unexplained gamma-ray &#8216;excesses&#8217; near the Milky Way\u2019s center. Some earlier studies suggested the emissions could come from clusters of millisecond pulsars \u2014 rapidly rotating neutron stars \u2014 rather than dark matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The key idea behind the findings is that if dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49,48,314,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-310359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-physics","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}