An incredibly rare discovery was made by Japan scientists led by Tomonori Totani in Tokyo, at the university of Tokyo. The research team shared that they had just achieved something that was thought of as impossible, they were able to observe dark matter directly. Black matter was for percieved as an anomoly that was unobservable for the longest time yet a huge milestone was set due to the Tokyo researchers.
Dark matter is an element we cannot see with a the naked eye scientists were able to directly observe this
In the 1930’s a Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky realized that the galaxies in the Coma Cluster had been moving at extremly high speeds to be kept together by visble matter alone. He began to wonder if there was something more to this than what meets the eye. The conversation of black matter was introduced when Zwicky pruposed that there was a force that exisited to generate enough graviy and was invisible to the human eye. This theory was doubted until Vera Rubin and Kent Ford observed the same effect in galaxies like the Milky Way, where they observed stars that orbited at the borders of galaxies at the same speed as the ones locaed closer to the center.
This observation concluded that outer stars moving at the simillar speeds as inner stars should be impossible based on visible matter alone. This was the discovery of the “flat rotaion curve” the one of the layers of foundation that served as a presedent that somethings in space cannot be seen. Irrespective of the hard work put into this research, dar matter has not been recorded directly as it shows no visible effects. It has a unique behavior and it esily passes through ordinary matter, only making it detectable through its gravitational well, until this recent discovery.
The signal that turn the world of physics upside down
WIMP’s – Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, was what the Japanese researchers focused on as it was one of the longest leading candidates for dark matter. these paticles were thought to hold together galaxies while being nvisible because they rarely interact with tnormal matter. A theory suggestst that when WIMP’s collide they destroy each other and emmit gamma rays, a strong gama signal was detected at the holo center of the Milky Way that measured an aproximate 20 GeV signal.
Nasa’s archived data from the Fermi Telescope was used by the Japan team to assist in proving their theory. The Milky Way centere is a place where dark matter is the most concentrated, and as the signal matched the hypothesis for the WIMP distruction, the researchers took this to be the first representation of dark matter.
Can this theory prove the direct existence of dark matter and how will effect the scientific community
Scientists unanimously agree that the discovery of dark matter could be innovative and change the course of quantum physics entirely, however most remain skeptical. Other researchers point out that the same telescope did not find conclusive evidence on dark matter while others argue that the center of the Milky Way is filled with numerous energetic components that can generate simillar gamma-ray.
The key issue is to truely find out whether or not the signal is a product of dar energy or just a collection of small stars. The CTAO, Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory will be utilized to get an updated response tho this research, however this is an exciting discovery but not yet proven o truly exist.
The theory that can change the course of quantum physics and the understanding of the universe
Thid discovery is not yet sound and still has a lot of testing and confrirmation to undergo, however it is a milestone as this is the first time in history where evidence of dark matter has been observed. This is an important step into the the right direction that will hopefully one say change the way the universe is perciened.