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Pulsars Hunt Dark Matter: What the Search Revealed ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Constraints on Ultralight Scalar and Dark Photon Dark Matter from PPTA-DR3 and EPTA-DR2"
arXiv:2605.02172 · 2026-05-04 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Cosmology High Energy General Relativity
Beacon-like pulsars helped test if dark matter might be ultralight.
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Pulsars are cosmic lighthouses of incredible precision. Their rhythm could be disrupted by the invisible ripple of ultralight dark matter. Astronomers analyzed years of data and found no such disturbances. But now they know for sure where it isn’t. This is an important step in solving the riddle of what the Universe is really made of.

🎯 Ultralight dark matter particles are billions of times lighter than an electron — so small that their behavior resembles waves more than familiar particles.

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Albert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard RiemannJoseph WeberKarl Schwarzschild
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dark matter pulsar gravitational waves
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Original: arXiv:2605.02172 · CC BY · bridge42worlds