Dark matter, the elusive, invisible stuff that astronomers say constitutes roughly 85% of the universe’s mass, doesn’t interact with light. Scientists only suspect it’s there because of the way the things we can see interacts with it. But now, one team in China says it’s found the most direct evidence for dark matter yet.
According to a recently published study in Physical Review Letters, astrophysicists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences found a “sharp” gamma-ray signal among 15.5 years’ worth of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST). The signal, the paper argues, is observable support for the leading theory of dark matter…
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