"New Insights into Dark Matter's Role in Galaxy Formation"
Newcastle University researchers have used insights from ultracold atomic Bose Einstein condensates to analyze the behavior of fuzzy dark matter, a new model for cosmological dark matter. They found that the physical state of the core of fuzzy dark matter halos is the same as that of Bose-Einstein condensates formed in laboratory atomic traps. The fuzzy dark matter surrounding the halo cores is in a turbulent state, with vortices and fluctuations that inhibit coherence across the entire halo. Future research will focus on possible ways to observe such features of fuzzy dark matter, thus placing this model under more detailed observational scrutiny.