When the New Horizons probe reached the outer dark of the Solar System, out past Pluto, its instruments picked up something strange.
As it turns out, axions in a specific mass range should also behave exactly like we expect dark matter to. And there might be a way to detect them – because theoretically, axions are expected to decay into pairs of photons in the presence of a strong magnetic field.
The difficulty is in separating them from all the other sources of light in the Universe, and this is where the cosmic optical background comes in. Scientists have presumed the excess detected by New Horizons to be the product attributed to stars and galaxies that we can't see. And that option is still very much on the table. The work of Bernal and his team was to assess whether axion-like dark matter could possibly be responsible for the extra light.
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