{"id":202636,"date":"2025-11-27T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202636\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:00:10","slug":"dark-matter-finally-found-scientists-have-spotted-a-strange-ray-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-that-may-change-physics-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202636\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter finally found? Scientists have spotted a strange ray at the center of our galaxy that may change Physics forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists may have captured the first direct hint of dark matter<\/a> using NASA\u2019s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, marking what could be a breakthrough moment in modern physics, The Guardian reported. The research team found an unusual gamma-ray glow<\/a> near the centre of the Milky Way<\/a>, the place where dark matter is thought to be packed most densely, raising hopes that the unseen substance shaping our universe may finally be revealing itself.Why dark matter has puzzled scientists for decadesDark matter has baffled astronomers since the 1930s, when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed galaxies in the Coma Cluster racing around far too fast to be held together by visible matter alone. Years later, Vera Rubin confirmed that spiral galaxies behaved in the same odd way, their outer stars were rotating just as quickly as the inner ones, hinting at an invisible mass acting as cosmic glue.
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Even today, dark matter has never been seen directly. It emits no light, reflects nothing, and quietly outweighs all visible matter, stars, planets and everything in between, making up nearly 85 per cent of the universe, according to space.com.A new study sparks excitementA new study led by Prof Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo suggests that this invisible giant may finally have left a signature strong enough for us to detect.\"ETLive EventsTotani\u2019s team examined Fermi telescope data from the Milky Way\u2019s centre and spotted a halo-shaped gamma-ray glow at around 20 gigaelectronvolts. This signal fits perfectly with predictions for a type of dark matter particle known as a WIMP, a weakly interacting massive particle. When two WIMPs crash into each other, theory says they annihilate and release powerful gamma rays.
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\u201cThe emission closely matches the shape expected from a dark matter halo,\u201d Totani is quoted as saying by space.com. He also noted that scientists currently have no alternative astronomical explanation for this pattern.A discovery that could rewrite physics
If these findings hold up, this would be the closest humanity has ever come to \u201cseeing\u201d dark matter \u2014 not visually, but through the energetic marks it leaves behind. It could also point to a new particle that the Standard Model of physics has no room for, putting researchers on the brink of a discovery as consequential as the Higgs boson.<\/p>\n

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Caution before celebration
But like every great sci-fi twist, from Interstellar to Arrival, scientists are staying cautious. The results need more verification, more data, and more time under the microscope.<\/p>\n

For now, dark matter remains the universe\u2019s biggest introvert \u2014 still hiding, but maybe not hiding quite as well as before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists may have captured the first direct hint of dark matter using NASA\u2019s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, marking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[2352,111622,111620,111621,111623,18,19,17,133,1210],"class_list":{"0":"post-202636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-dark-matter","9":"tag-dark-matter-news","10":"tag-dark-matter-physics","11":"tag-dark-matter-physics-news","12":"tag-dark-matter-physics-theory","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-what"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}