Dunkle Materie wurde möglicherweise endlich im Leuchten unserer Galaxie entdeckt – „Die Gammastrahlungsemissionskomponente entspricht weitgehend der Form, die vom Halo aus dunkler Materie erwartet wird.“

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A new analysis of 15 years‘ worth of data from the [Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope) reveals a glow of unusually high-energy gamma rays that cannot easily be attributed to any known source.

According to astronomer Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo in Japan, it may be the radiation produced when hypothetical [dark matter](https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-matter) particles collide and wipe out one another.

It’s not the first time astronomers have gone looking for such a glow – but it’s the first time one has been found peaking at this specific energy level in the [galactic halo](https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-magnetic-halo-discovered-wrapped-around-the-milky-way), the large bubble of gas and radiation that surrounds the Milky Way.