Cosmic rays suggest dark matter is a self-annihilating WIMP

Enlarge / AMS aboard the International Space Station. (credit: NASA) What happens when two dark matter particles collide? We don’t know the answer to that question because we don’t know what dark matter is. A whole host of possible particles could constitute dark matter, and some of them allow dark matter to “self-interact.” Here, when two dark matter particles collide, they […]