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An international research collaboration used machine learning to re-examine the Galactic Center Excess (GCE), finding that dark matter cannot currently be ruled out as its cause.
Milky Way's center
Who
University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers Florian List and Nick Rodd
What
An international research collaboration used machine learning to re-examine the Galactic Center Excess (GCE), finding that dark matter cannot currently be ruled out as its cause.
When
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:20:01 GMT · 2h 52m ago
Where
Milky Way's center ·
Why
Previous statistical studies supporting the pulsar hypothesis for the GCE did not include the crucial information of the energy of each individual detected photon.
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This new analysis using machine learning weakens one of the strongest arguments against the dark matter hypothesis, suggesting dark matter remains a plausible explanation for the Galactic Center Excess. It re-opens scientific inquiry into a long-standing astronomical mystery.
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