A recent study has provided intriguing evidence that dark matter—the mysterious substance making up a significant portion of the universe’s mass—could interact with regular matter in more ways than previously believed. For decades, dark matter has been thought to exert its influence exclusively through gravity, shaping the structure of galaxies and the universe at large. This new research, however, challenges that conventional understanding, suggesting there could be subtle, previously undetected interactions between dark matter and regular matter, opening up new possibilities for understandin…