Dark materials and lighter matters (Image: NASA/CXC/UMASS/D.Wang et al)
Two of the biggest mysteries in physics – what dark matter is made of and why matter dominates over antimatter – might be solved in one go
WHEN a detective finds that two seemingly separate crimes point back to the same suspect, solving each becomes easier. A similar boost could await cosmologists, who are asking whether two of the biggest mysteries in physics – what dark matter is made of and why there was an excess of matter over antimatter in the early universe – have a common origin.
The prospect of solving the two…
