A new theory of dark matter proposed by two professors from National Taiwan University (NTU) has been published in the prestigious journal, Nature Physics.
Dr. Schive Hsi-yu and Professor Chiueh Tzi-hong from NTU worked alongside Professor Tom Broadhurst from Spain to come up with a new theory that suggests dark matter is actually made up of "light" particles.
Most particle physicists believe that dark matter consists of "heavy" particles. But while this theory helps explain how the universe evolved to the current distribution of galaxies and clusters, the theory is unable to satisfactorily explain the discovery of dwarf galaxies.
The new theory is not only able to explain that, the results are also very promising as they open up the possibility that dark matter could be regarded as a very cold quantum fluid that governs the formation of the structure across the entire universe.