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Robert Lea

'Axion stars' that went boom after the Big Bang could shed light on dark matter

An illustration shows a hypothetical axion star which could shed light on dark matter.

Discovering highly unstable and explosive "axion stars" could help scientists finally shed light on the universe's most mysterious stuff: Dark matter.

Despite accounting for an estimated 85% of the universe's mass, dark matter remains effectively invisible because it doesn't interact with light. That also means it can't be made up of particles like electrons and protons that composes the atoms that come together to form stars, planets, moons and our bodies. 

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