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Article: DARK MATTER MAY SHINE WITH INVISIBLE 'DARK LIGHT'
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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London, Nov. 01 -- (ANI): Calculations by astronomers has indicated that the mysterious dark matter could be shining with its own private kind of light, which though invisible to us, could still have visible effects.Astronomers usually assume that dark matter particles barely interact with each other.According to a report in New Scientist, Lotty Ackerman and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena decided to test this assumption by supposing there is a force between dark matter particles that behaves in the same way as the electromagnetic force. That would imply a new form of radiation that is only accessible to ...