Integral Disproves Dark Matter Origin For Mystery Radiation
source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090801122552.htm
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Another blow to the use of dark matter to explain a lot of things that astronomers cannot explain. This time, dark matter was used to explain certain positron radiation observations in the Milky Way galaxy that didn't fit into the current physics model.
The recent study has found that the ‘positrons’ fuelling the radiation are not produced from dark matter but from an entirely different, and much less mysterious, source: massive stars explode and leave behind radioactive elements that decay into lighter particles, including positrons, the antimatter counterparts of electrons.
The recent study has found that the ‘positrons’ fuelling the radiation are not produced from dark matter but from an entirely different, and much less mysterious, source: massive stars explode and leave behind radioactive elements that decay into lighter particles, including positrons, the antimatter counterparts of electrons.
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