{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_7ut3jfzbdnfkdpz64ujq","title":"Milky Way White Dwarfs as Inelastic Dark Matter Detectors","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/milky-way-white-dwarfs-as-inelastic-dark-matter-detectors-7ut3jfzbdn","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_7ut3jfzbdnfkdpz64ujq","seq":608142,"kind":"research","title":"Milky Way White Dwarfs as Inelastic Dark Matter Detectors","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31850","summary":"arXiv:2609.31850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that white dwarfs in the Galactic Center are a sensitive probe of inelastic dark matter (IDM) annihilation. IDM particles traversing a white dwarf may become gravitationally captured without fully settling in its interior if their energy drops below the kinematic threshold for inelastic scattering. In this regime, a fraction of the incoming particles remains bound on long-lived orbits that extend beyond the white…","published":"2026-09-29T04:00:00Z","seen":"2026-09-29T07:46:41Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"arxiv-astro-ph","name":"arXiv astro-ph (astrophysics)","domain":"arxiv.org","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q118398","name":"arXiv","type":"website","country":"US","designations":["bibliographic database","disciplinary repository","online database","open science tool","preprint server","website"]}},"via":"arxiv-astro-ph","topics":["space","astrophysics","hep-ph","astro-ph.he"],"authors":["Javier F. Acevedo"],"entities":[{"id":"Q1752705","name":"Milky Way","type":"place"}],"story":"st_7ut3jfzbdnfkdpz64ujq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.7799999713897705,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.20999999344348907,"political":0.019999999552965164}]}