A New Discovery Reopens the Search for Elusive Dark Matter

New research in Physical Review Letters challenges assumptions about how dark photons interacted with the early universe.

Computer simulations show that nonlinear effects may have stopped their energy conversion far earlier than expected, meaning the cosmos may not have been heated as previously thought. The result reopens a broad range of dark matter possibilities and could reshape future searches for these elusive particles.

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