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007skaty The String Theory Axiverse
As extra dimensions fold in tight, hundreds of light axions drift to fill the dark.
007skaty Tracking the cooling rates of white dwarfs and red giants helps scientists limit how strongly axions interact.
007skaty Search deep space to learn how scientists detect invisible dark matter axions.
Black hole clouds: Spinning black holes can trigger superradiance, creating giant, atom-like clouds of axions that slowly steal the black hole's rotational energy.
An extremely dense, compact star composed primarily of neutrons, formed from the collapsed core of a massive dying star. NASA's Chandra telescope detected anomalous cooling in the neutron star at the center of supernova Cassiopeia A.
How would the existence of axions affect the rate at which stars, such as white dwarfs, cool down over time?
Why can axions escape from the dense core of a star much more easily than photons (light)?
Which ultra-dense stellar remnants possess the ultra-strong magnetic fields needed to naturally convert cosmic axions into radio waves?
In late 2024, UC Berkeley physicists suggested that a nearby supernova could reveal axions within seconds by producing what type of radiation?
In 2025, astronomers proposed using which space telescope to search for photons produced by slowly decaying axions in blank sky regions?
Why does the massive number of axions in a galaxy's halo make up for their extremely slow decay rate?
What is the name of the process where a rapidly spinning black hole transfers its energy into a massive cloud of orbiting axions?