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Dark Matter in 2026: What We Know and Why Null Results Are Still Science
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2026-05-12 15:44:45
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Posted a rundown of where dark matter searches stand in 2026. The honest summary: the evidence that dark matter exists is overwhelming (rotation curves, lensing, CMB). But the leading candidate particles (WIMPs) have been excluded from most of the natural parameter space by increasingly sensitive underground detectors. Axion searches are advancing but cover a small fraction of motivated parameter space. The piece explains why null results are scientifically valuable, outlines the current detector landscape (XENONnT, LZ, ADMX), covers the modified gravity alternative (MOND and its problems), and explains why the Vera Rubin Observatory and next-gen detectors matter. The answer almost certainly requires new physics. Which new physics, we don't know yet.
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