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Published – September 04, 2026 06:07 pm IST – GUWAHATI
A view of a planetary nebula. Image used for representation only. Credit: NASA
Dark matter, the unseen substance that makes up most of the universe’s matter, could play a more dramatic role than previously thought.
A new study suggests that heavy dark matter particles trapped inside a dense star could accumulate at its core, collapse into a tiny black hole roughly the mass of a loaded semi-truck and gradually transform the entire star into a black hole.
The authors of the study, published in the latest issue of the Physical Review D, are H.A. Adarsha and Chandrachur Chakraborty of the Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and Sudip Bhattacharyya of Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
