🔬 Science Apr 11, 2026 · Stuart Clark

Dark matter may come in multiple forms, new model suggests

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NASA’s Fermi five-year view of the gamma-ray sky shows an excess of radiation coming from the centre of out Galaxy (centre of the image). Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Astronomers may not need to see the same dark matter signal everywhere in the Universe to confirm its existence. A new theoretical study suggests that dark matter could consist of more than one type of particle, potentially resolving a long-standing observational puzzle.
Dark matter itself is inferred because the

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