A few weeks a go, I was reading about a curious marker from the center of out galaxy. I couldn't find the link to an article explaining a peak of gamma photons in the 511 KeV. I read that this value have some relation with the annihilation of the antimatter, specifically when a positron finds and electron and both appears converted in pure energy.
We use this annihilation for image diagnostics in medicine. I remember a really good article (in Spanish) about the positronic techniques who detects the two gamma photons of this annihilation. But back to the origin of this post. The Pamela mission founds an explanation of this extrange peak of gamma rays.
There is a big probability that the origin of this positrons (that gives us this gamma rays) is the desintegration of a supersymmetric particle that also is a dark matter particle: the neutralino.
Maybe we are infront a prove of the existance of the dark matter, and also infront the prove that at least one of the supersymmetric particles exists. A Nobel prize is at stake...
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