Forget the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, if you really want to unravel the mysteries behind the most elusive subatomic particles in the Universe, you may be better off detecting the gravitational waves radiating from a black hole.
This sci-fi-sounding notion comes from the fertile minds of Vienna University of Technology scientists who argue that the extreme gravitational dominance of black holes may be honeypots for hypothetical exotic particles called axions.
In a study he carried out with Gabriela Mocanu, Daniel Grumiller said: "The existence of axions is not proven, but it is considered to be quite likely." And what better way than to ask a black hole for some help in the axion hunt?
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