Where's the Dark Matter? Look for Suspicious Warm Planets

May 5, 2021

Where's the Dark Matter? Look for Suspicious Warm Planets

Soon we'll have a cutting-edge thermometer: NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope is expected to launch this fall. PHOTOGRAPH: DAVID HIGGINBOTHAM/NASA/MSFC

WIRED shares more on newly published research from Juri Smirnov, a fellow in the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, which suggests dark matter could be detected by measuring the effect it has on the temperature of exoplanets at the Milky Way's center.

Check out the full article:

https://www.wired.com/story/wheres-the-dark-matter-look-for-suspiciously-warm-planets/