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Mysterious Glow Caught in Our Galaxy’s Center Really Could Be Due to Dark Matter – ScienceAlert

The center of the Milky Way is mysteriously glowing.

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The center of the Milky Way is mysteriously glowing.
Sure, there’s a whole bunch of stars there, along with a black hole 4 million times the mass of the Sun – but subtract the light from all that, and we’re still left with this mysterious excess gamma radiation that suffuses the region.
It’s called the Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE), and it’s puzzled scientists since its discovery by physicists Lisa Goodenough and Dan Hooper in 2009. In data from NASA’s Fermi telescope, they found excess gamma…

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