“You’ve heard of electric cars and e-books, but now we are talking about electric dark matter. However, this electric charge is on the very smallest of scales,” said lead author Dr. Julian Munoz, of Harvard University.
Dr. Munoz and his co-author, Professor Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, explore the possibility that charged dark matter particles interact with normal matter by the electromagnetic force.
Their work, published in the journal Nature, dovetails with recently results from the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature (EDGES) Collaboration.
Earlier this year, EDGES scientists said they had detected the radio signature from the first generation of stars, and possible evidence for interaction between dark matter and normal matter.
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