The New Horizons spacecraft could have observed decaying dark matter

The probe that photographed Pluto in 2015 now finds an excess of brightness in the Cosmic Optical Background (COB) that could be due to the disintegration of axions, candidate particles to be the much sought after dark matter

New Horizons is already in the Kuiper Belt NASA

09/01/2023

Updated at 7:24 p.m.

The probe that photographed Pluto in 2015 now finds an excess of brightness in the Cosmic Optical Background (COB) that could be due to the disintegration of axions, candidate particles to be the much sought after dark matter

An unexpected excess of light beyond…

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