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Dark Matter Is Born from Ghostly Neutrinos ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter as a Probe of Inflationary Reheating"
· James M. Cline, Yong Xu
arXiv:2601.03346v2 · 2026-01-06 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · HEP Phenomenology Cosmology
Sterile neutrinos may have arisen in the first moments after the Big Bang and become dark matter.
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Dark matter may have arisen in the first moments after the Big Bang, when space expanded lightning-fast and grew blazing hot. The invisible particles, sterile neutrinos, could preserve memory of that ancient fire and give themselves away with a faint X-ray glow.

🎯 Sterile neutrinos are so elusive that they could fly through a light-year of lead without ever colliding with an atom.

\frac{m_\phi}{T_{rh}}
ratio of inflaton mass to reheating temperature
Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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dark matter big bang expansion of the universe
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Friedmann equationsHubble's lawgravitational lensingEinstein field equationsPlanck's lawvirial theorem
Original: arXiv:2601.03346v2 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds