{"id":261770,"date":"2024-10-04T22:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/space-may-be-filled-with-more-antimatter-than-we-can-explain\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:58","slug":"space-may-be-filled-with-more-antimatter-than-we-can-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/space-may-be-filled-with-more-antimatter-than-we-can-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) is visible at center left\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04145528\/SEI_224387016.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2450710\" data-caption=\"The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer visible at centre left\" data-credit=\"NASA\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer visible at centre left<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The neighbourhood of space where the International Space Station (ISS) resides seems to be littered with unexpected quantities of antimatter \u2013 and the culprit may be mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2448020-dark-matter-may-allow-giant-black-holes-to-form-in-the-early-universe\/\">dark matter <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2448020-dark-matter-may-allow-giant-black-holes-to-form-in-the-early-universe\/\">particles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very surprised. This is weird, and the mechanism that is producing this amount of antimatter should be something exotic,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/portalcientifico.uam.es\/es\/ipublic\/researcher\/332515\">Pedro De La Torre Luque<\/a> at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. He and his colleagues found hints of this antimatter by analysing 15 years of data from the Alpha Magnetic\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2450590-space-may-be-filled-with-more-antimatter-than-we-can-explain\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer visible at centre left NASA The neighbourhood of space where the International Space Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}