Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in The white dwarf Sirius B compared to Earth . Credit : ESA and NASA Posted on September 29, 2023 September 29, 2023 by Brian Koberlein Dark Matter Could Be Annihilating Inside White Dwarfs As the search for dark matter particles continues to yield nothing , astronomers continue to look at ways these elusive particles might be found . One general method is to look for evidence of dark matter particle decay . Although dark matter doesn’t interact strongly with regular matter , some dark matter models predict that dark matter particles can interact with each other , causing them to decay into regular particles There have been several searches for this effect , but there’s no