MADMAX is a special setup that focuses on detecting axions and dark photons, two supposed particles that are believed to form the dark matter. “These two hypothetical particles ...

Three more dark-matter candidates have just bitten the dust. Since 2008, NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been collecting evidence of the observable universe's most powerful ...

The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they ...

“Our first calculations indicate that condensates of d-stars are a feasible new candidate for dark matter,” says Daniel Watts, co-author of the study. “This new result is particularly ...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Axions, hypothetical subatomic particles that were first proposed by theoretical physicists in the late 1970s, remain among the most promising dark matter candidates. Physics theories suggest that the ...

leaving people open to the idea that something other than a WIMP comprises dark matter. One of the many candidates is something called an axion, a force-carrying particle that was proposed to ...

open image in gallery Ph.D. candidate Keegan Walkup, left, and physicist Patrick Huber work in the new lab that Huber is establishing to look for evidence of dark matter traces inside the crystal ...

Some of these particles are "perfect candidates'' for dark matter, raising some interesting implications for how the elusive entity might behave, he added. "Unlike other 'particle' dark matter ...

These light dark matter candidates are generally called sub-GeV (giga electronvolts) dark matter particles. Such dark matter particles may interact with their antiparticles. In our work ...

That's the conclusion reached by a team of researchers led by Dion Noordhuis of the University of Amsterdam, who previously investigated what would happen to particular dark matter candidates ...