Dark Matter Could Transfer Energy In The Sun

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Dark Matter Could Transfer Energy in the Sun

 

Scientists believe that the majority of the dark matter particles gather together in the centre of the Sun, but in their elliptic orbits they also travel to the outer part, interacting and exchanging with the solar atoms. In this way, the WIMPs transport the energy from the burning central core to the cooler peripheral parts. (Credit: Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARC)

 

ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2010) — Researchers from the Institute for Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) and other European groups have studied the effects of the presence of dark matter in the Sun. According to their calculations, low mass dark matter particles could be transferring energy from the core to the external parts of the Sun, which would affect the quantity of neutrinos that reach Earth.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201095822.htm