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Dark Matter: A Hidden Threat to Neutron Stars ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Compact Stars as Portals to Extra-Dimensional Dark Matter"
arXiv:2512.14837 · 2025-12-16 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · HEP Phenomenology High Energy HEP Experiment
A tiny clump of dark matter can destroy a neutron star if space hides extra dimensions.
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Hidden dimensions could turn a neutron star into a devouring black hole. Even a tiny speck of dark matter triggers an irreversible collapse. This changes our ideas about what dark matter could be.

🎯 Extra dimensions could be no larger than an atomic nucleus—about a femtometer, which is a billion times thinner than a hair.

🎬 Like in 'Interstellar,' where five-dimensional space helped survive a black hole—only here, hidden dimensions create that hole in the first place.

Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard Riemann
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dark matter black hole neutron star spacetime curvature
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Hawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsFermi–Dirac statisticsequivalence principle
Original: arXiv:2512.14837 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds