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superWIMPs may make up 25% of Universe
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UC Irvine research has found new cosmic particles that may constitute 25% of the invisible “dark matter” in the Universe. The particles have been named “superweakly interacting massive particles, or superWIMPs.” Dark matter is one of the most puzzling problems for astrophysicists, because while it may be the “celestial glue” that holds galaxies together, almost nothing is known of what it is made.
What interests me about this is that after all the breakthroughs in techology and sciene, we still don’t know what makes up about 80% of the mass of the Universe. It is invisible to every tech tool we have. The idea of superWIMPs helps explain part of that invisible mass, but not all of it — Yet!