Updates on the Hunt for Dark Matter | SciShow Space News
The hunt for dark matter is still on, and the candidates for it could be primordial black holes as massive as Earth, or axions, as tiny as the smallest subatomic particles in existence! Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://press.nature.com/wp-content/uploads/files/2019/03/41550_2019_723_OnlinePDF_4.pdf https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/miot-dme032819.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/miop-pcd032719.php https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/059/pdf https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121802 https://physicsworld.com/a/supernovae-reveal-that-primordial-black-holes-cannot-account-for-all-dark-matter/ http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/eaa-wimps-machos.pdf https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/152/1/75/2604549 https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12307 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10253 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-suggests-possible-link-between-primordial-black-holes-and-dark-matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_expected_dark_matter_distribution_around_the_Milky_Way.ogv https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/illustration-of-cool-dust-around-an-active-black-hole http://hubblesite.org/video/312/news_release/2003-01 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12317 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11130