While light can bounce off of axions, this process is extremely rare.
Hence their nameaxionswhich comes from a cleaning product brand.
The authors deserve a lot of credit for pointing this out.
A neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula.Image: ESA/Hubble / Wikimedia Commons
So how can we detect and identify dark matter?
But the state-of-the-art telescopes in spaceare not radio telescopes.
Work like this could thus easily pop pop the pathway towards discovery.
No pressure, NASA coffers!
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Its One Particle Accelerator, Michael.
What Could It Cost$17 Billion?
CERN says its Future Circular Collider has no technical hurdlesthough the expected costs are exorbitant.