I can’t stand these popular science articles that just cherry pick phrases from a paper. tl;dr it’s a very promising result but more observation of other galaxies or other mass consistent observations is needed before we should believe this.
However, the signal from the MW halo alone does not constitute the definitive proof of dark matter annihilation. Detection of annihilation signals from other objects or regions with consistent WIMP parameters will be crucial for the final confirmation. Gamma-ray observations of dwarf galaxies in the MW halo are fascinating from this perspective.
I would say the most exciting part is this gives us a mass range to optimise the search with earth based detectors. Start looking for 0.5-0.8 TeV masses.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209
I can’t stand these popular science articles that just cherry pick phrases from a paper. tl;dr it’s a very promising result but more observation of other galaxies or other mass consistent observations is needed before we should believe this.
I would say the most exciting part is this gives us a mass range to optimise the search with earth based detectors. Start looking for 0.5-0.8 TeV masses.