Hunting Dark Matter with Supernova Explosions – ECAP

Hunting Dark Matter with Supernova Explosions – ECAP

Hunting Dark Matter with Supernova Explosions

An artist impression of the Fermi LAT observing a supernova producing axions. Image credit: Maedeh Mohammadpour Mir

The nature of dark matter, the substance that accounts for more than 85% of all matter in the Universe, remains a mystery. Many theories predict that dark matter is made up from yet undiscovered fundamental particles and a plethora of experiments on Earth and in Space are looking for traces of them. A new study by Manuel Meyer of the Erlangen Center of Astroparticle Physics at FAU and Tanja Petrushevska of the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Nova Gorica suggests how researchers can use explosions of stars outside the Milky Way to search for a particular class of dark matter particles.