Friday, April 4, 2014

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


Fermi data tantalize with new clues to dark matter: Gamma rays from center of Milky Way galaxy

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 09:36 AM PDT

A new study of gamma-ray light from the center of our galaxy makes the strongest case to date that some of this emission may arise from dark matter, an unknown substance making up most of the material universe. Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high-energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter.

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