Unexpected Antimatter Detections Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough

New findings from the AMS-02 experiment on the ISS suggest that traces of antihelium could be linked to elusive dark matter particles known as WIMPs.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) aboard the International Space Station has detected an unexpectedly high number of antihelium particles in cosmic rays.
These antihelium detections could potentially be explained by the decay of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for dark matter.
Antihelium-3 and the even rarer antihelium-4 were observed, with the latter being particularly surprising and suggesting the need for new physics models.
The findings challenge standard astrophysical explanations and point towards dark matter annihilation as a plausible source of the observed antiparticles.
Further confirmation and study are needed to verify these detections and explore their implications for our understanding of the universe.