<ul><li>Hypothetical particles called axions could form dense clouds around neutron stars, potentially revealing the origins of dark matter.</li><li>Axions, being a possible candidate for dark matter, are extremely light and hardly interact with ordinary matter.</li><li>Researchers found that axions, if they exist, will be produced in large quantities at the polar regions of neutron stars and accumulate forming a cloud dense enough to emit detectable signals.</li><li>Several large radio telescopes, such as LOFAR and Murchison Widefield Array, could potentially detect the radiofrequency signatures of axion clouds.</li></ul>

Axion clouds around neutron stars could reveal dark matter origins

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