What if dark matter particles aren't WIMPs?

Friday, December 12, 2008 - 15:07 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, many physicists have accepted that dark matter is composed of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The fact that WIMPs can naturally explain the amount of dark matter in the universe - left over from the Big Bang - has been described as the “WIMP miracle.”

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