Tuesday, April 3, 2007

A Dwarf can still annihilate WIMPS

So, score one for interesting titles and double meanings, but seriously, this is some heavy stuff (hehe, ok, the puns are done, I promise). So apparently, there is a bunch of Weakly Interacting Masive Particles that like to hang out near the edges of black holes, and scientists are trying to figure these babies out. Their theory right now is that these WIMPS contribute tons of dark matter to the universe, and that when a white dwarf star (a super dense, super bright star) passes near the black hole, the fly-by 'annihilates' the WIMPS.

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