"Many researchers feel they are a strong candidate for dark matter, but there would need to be plenty of them to satisfy that theory."

The universe is thought to be around 13.8 billion years old. While starting incredibly small, it has since exploded into the nigh-infinite reaches of space we all know today. Since the Big Bang, the universe has gone from this small singularity to a paradoxically bustling yet empty span of space,

Researchers at the Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU) and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI) at the University of Tokyo have applied the well-understood and highly verified quantum field theory,