Searching for Dark Matter Particles

MIT researchers are searching for ultralight bosons using black holes.

via MIT

Ultralight bosons are being searched for across a huge range of super-light masses, from 1×10-33 electronvolts to 1×10-6 electronvolts. Scientists have so far used tabletop experiments and astrophysical observations to rule out slivers of this wide space of possible masses. Since the early 2000s, physicists proposed that black holes could be another means of detecting ultralight bosons, due to an effect known as superradiance.

If ultralight bosons exist, they could interact with a black hole under the right circumstances. Quantum theory posits that at a very small scale, particles cannot be described by classical physics, or even as individual objects. This scale, known as the Compton wavelength, is inversely proportional to the particle mass.

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