Mysterious X-rays can reveal the nature of dark matter

Unexpected discovery involves dark matter, a strange material that does not emit light or energy, but is thought to produce about 85% of matter in the universe.

The light of X-rays from the galaxy cluster Perseus can finally reveal the true nature of a mysterious object that scientists call.

Dark matter is a strange material that does not emit light or energy, but it is thought to produce about 85% of matter in the universe.

Dark matter is thought to produce about 85% of matter in the universe.(Photo: Space).

Thanks to the coherent observations by NASA's X Chandra Observatory, a Japanese X-ray telescope called Hitomi and the European Space Agency (XMM-Newton), scientists can soon fix Discovering this mysterious material, the researchers said in a statement from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The focus of the study is the Perseus cluster , a dusty area where galaxies gather together, about 250 million light-years away from Earth.

The scientists estimated that the Perseus cluster was 11.6 million light-years and that it could contain more than 660 trillion times the mass of the Sun.

New observations show that radiation emitted with 3.5 kiloelectron volts (keV) of energy, and a new analysis found absorption of X-rays - also at 3.5 keV - around a supermassive black hole in the center of the Perseus cluster. Researchers are almost unable to explain why this particular wavelength is so eerily emitted and absorbed and they argue that mysterious dark matter can be the cause of the process. on.