Neutron Stars May Be Covered in Axion Clouds Finally Explaining Dark Matter

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about axions, neutron stars and dark matter
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0:00 Neutron stars and axions
0:50 What are axions? What do they explain?
2:30 Magnetic fields and axions
4:25 Initial assumptions about neutron stars
4:50 Axion clouds?
5:35 How to detect this
7:00 Other objects that may have them
8:00 Conclusions and what's next

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[cadrantedeestrelas]

I read that paper months ago. It was related to the work I did in my master's thesis, and it is now related to the topic of the PhD I have just started. I love your channel, Anton. Thank you so much for your work! 😊

[jamescomstock]

It gives me so much joy whenever we figure out new ways to TEST possible theories like this. I'm looking forward to more on this topic!

[MrAsh]

That thumbnail is genuinely terrifying. Like something straight out of an 80's slasher movie.

[owenklijnsma]

I am so glad to see you are seeming to do okay considering everything that happened in the past year. Great video as always, keep it up Anton! Love from Belgium

[Mrbrownstone]

Clicked for the thumbnail, liked and stayed for the awesome science content. Love ya wonderful person.

[linesmen]

You seem from the thumbnail Insanely happy about this.

[bartstewart]

Anton explains how Axion clouds may explain Dark Matter, while half of YouTube is exploring whether the ghost of Bigfoot came out of a flying saucer from Atlantis.

[michaelteegarden]

I had not known that axions were named after the soap! That's great!

[dukemetzger]

I have to agree that the idea is super cool and I hope they actually look at this possibility as it's perhaps the most reasonable hypothesis I have heard yet.

[tra-viskaiser]

Anton... dont do that, even if it is halloween month.

[PetraKann]

Axions have no charge, no spin and a very small mass.
Its mass is not actually known precisely - estimates of the mass have ranged widely, from a few μeV to 500 μeV.

That’s micro eV.
Compare that to the known mass of the Higgs Boson which is 125.35 GeV.

A 15 orders of magnitude difference.

The electron has a mass of about 0.5 MeV which is still approximately 12 orders of magnitude heavier than a axion.

It will be extremely difficult to find a particle with such a tiny mass, that also lacks spin and charge.
Good luck

[RobertBrown-ir]

Thanks once more Anton-- I am grateful to you and to live in such an era of discovery

[tb]

Hey Anton, thanks for another great video. Not sure that I am buying this one though. Dark matter doesn't react to EM until it does. Dark matter turns into photons. Not sure about this. Keep us up to date Anton!

[anthonyalfredyorke]

WONDERFUL NEUTRON STARS, WONDERFUL ANTON AND WONDERFUL WEEKEND. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.

[WTH]

I always used Axion on really hard to get out stains when I lived in the Faroe Islands.
Wasn't til I got back home that I learned you're not supposed to use sea water.

[randallpetersen]

"You need the X that Axion's got!" That was from the TV ad; As a child, I was constantly pummeled with advertising jingles.

[ThadGuardi]

Great presentation! I look forward to you daily science reporting!

[stevenkarnisky]

Always nice when one answer solves several problems! Neutron stars are fascinating constructs which push the boundaries of understanding, at least for me.

Thanks, Anton!

[theblancmange]

Thumbnails look like Anton got gassed by the Joker.

[chrisrodgers]

Anton, you have 1.36 million followers. Don’t let a handful these haters get you down. Keep up the great work.