Composite Image: The Milky Way Galaxy's Predicted Dark Matter Halo (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Composite Image: The Milky Way Galaxy's Predicted Dark Matter Halo

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In this composite image, theorized particles of decaying dark matter should produce a spherical halo of X-ray emission - represented here as colorized matter concentrated around the center of the Milky Way (in black and white) - that could be detectable when looking in otherwise blank regions of the galaxy.

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Zosia Rostomian and Nicholas Rodd/Berkeley Lab; and Christopher Dessert and Benjamin Safdi/University of Michigan

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