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Joel Kontinen
Where is dark matter? Is it just a fluke or does it exist.
Now, some researchers think they may have spotted them.
They say that “dark matter-fuelled brown dwarfs could
be lurking at the centres of galaxies. If astronomers manage to spot them, they
could teach us about how dark matter interacts with regular matter.
Brown dwarfs are vast balls of gas, between 13 and 72
times as massive as Jupiter but smaller than stars and with too little matter
to sustain the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in their cores.
The threshold at which they start fusing hydrogen and
become stars.“
But if it does not exist, what would it matter?
Source:
Alex Wilkins. 2024. Dark matter could be hiding inside strange failed stars | New Scientist 30
August.
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