'Ghost' particles from the sun could lead us straight to an invisible trove of dark matter

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'Ghost' particles from the sun could lead us straight to an invisible trove of dark matter
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New research suggests that the sun may hold dark matter in its fiery heart, and ghostly particles called neutrinos could lead us to it.

Elusive dark matter particles may lurk deep within the heart of the sun, and researchers have discovered that we can use a detector buried in the Antarctic ice sheet to find them.

As of yet, we do not know the identity of this dark matter particle. So with a relative lack of hard evidence, theorists have come up with dozens of proposals for what dark matter could be. In some of these hypotheses, dark matter does indeed interact with normal matter — but only extremely rarely, in the densest cosmic environments.

And those dark matter particles can just sit there, for a second or a billion years, until they interact with another normal matter particle in that dense environment. When that happens, the dark matter particle, if it's heavy enough, can decay into a shower of other, more familiar particle species. Most of those particles will remain trapped within the core, bouncing around in the never-ending frenzy of their fiery environment.

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