New ideas about the nature of dark matter

New ideas about the nature of dark matter

Dark mother map of the KiDS survey area (area G12)

The share of dark energy and dark matter accounts for 96% of the total mass of the universe. It is important for us to find out what these forces and substances are, therefore two main hypotheses about dark matter are now being discussed. It is believed that it consists of massive halo objects or weakly interacting particles of mass.

The new study adheres to the second option, but note that dark matter includes axions - pseudo-Goldstone bosons that can contact with photons. An interesting feature of axion electrodynamics is that the modified electromagnetism equations allow for the existence of effects that do not fit into the classical Faraday-Maxwell theory. One of these is the occurrence of axion dyons - objects with parallel radially oriented electric and magnetic fields. The Dion magnetosphere is capable of demonstrating the Pannekoek-Rosseland effect. The bottom line is that the spatial distribution of electric charges takes place in an equilibrium isothermal plasma under the influence of a gravitational field — heavier ions with positive charges descend under lighter electrons. Such a field is not in an electron-positron plasma, since the positive and negative carriers are endowed with equal masses.

Axion dions can exhibit electron-positron plasma stratification and a specific distribution of magnetic fields. Now the team is developing concrete proposals for astrophysicists to help them find traces of axions in stellar plasma. Perhaps they will be able to identify the particles that make up the dark matter.

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