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[-] AnAnonymousApe@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm guessing this will turn out to be wrong, like the other times they apparently detected it. Would be very cool if true though.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The show is only a year old, and it was genuinely great.

We’re not talking about the TV series, are we?

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

It was very good. Joseph Mallozzi posted the original ending that he had planned. https://josephmallozzi.com/2020/07/25/that-original-dark-matter-ending-dark-timeline-edition/

[-] l_isqof@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I thought they had 30 days to release the files...

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. . . . A statistically significant halo-like excess is found with a spectral peak around 20 GeV, while its flux is consistent with zero below 2 GeV and above 200 GeV. Examination of the fit residual maps indicates that a spherically symmetric halo component fits the map data well. The radial profile agrees with annihilation by the smooth NFW density profile, and may be slightly shallower than this, especially in the central region. . . . The halo excess spectrum can be fitted by annihilation with a particle mass mχ ∼ 0.5–0.8 TeV and cross section 〈συ〉 ∼ (5–8) × 10-25 cm3 s-1 for the bb̅ channel. This cross section is larger than the upper limits from dwarf galaxies and the canonical thermal relic value, but considering various uncertainties, especially the density profile of the MW halo, the dark matter interpretation of the 20 GeV “Fermi halo” remains feasible. The prospects for verification through future observations are briefly discussed.

[-] Oppopity@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you can see it it's no longer dark matter, just matter.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Really really really dark grey matter

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Inside the dog it is too dark to see

[-] Klear@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's a good quote.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have seen dark matter from time to time especially after eating lots of red meat.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

We know about dark matter from its attraction. In contrast, what you've discovered sounds repulsive.

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