Analysis connects unresolved γ-ray background to dark matter in Coma cluster, suggesting roles for primordial black holes and weak lensing.
If 0.1% of the dark matter (DM) in the Coma cluster is primordial black holes of mass between 1 and 100 × 10 −19 M ⊙ , then the GeV radiation from the cluster may be Hawking radiation. Dark Energy Survey has mapped the DM in the largest weak lensing maps so far produced. A correlation between the unresolved γ -ray background and large scale structure has been noted. This correlation might find a natural explanation if some of the DM is evaporating primordial black holes, but no correlation is seen. We draw attention to a cluster of Coma-like x-ray clusters, Draco X, at redshift 0.12.
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