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Giant planets could act as dark matter detectors

Researchers in the U.S.

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Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the atmospheres of giant planets could partly arise through the indirect interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter. Led by Carlos Blanco at Princeton University, the team's results place some of the tightest constraints yet on the strength of this interaction.

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