Scientists have struggled for decades to identify the constituent particles of dark matter, but they’ve had little to show for all their efforts. A new study at Case Western Reserve University is now advancing the radical new hypothesis that dark matter may in fact be made not of exotic subatomic particles, but rather of macroscopic objects which would mass anywhere from a tennis ball to a dwarf planet, be as dense as a neutron star, and still be adequately described by the Standard Model of particle physics... Continue Reading Dark matter "particles" could have the mass of a dwarf planet
Section: Science
Tags: Case Western Reserve University, Dark Matter, Particle physics, The Standard Model
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