A hypothetical heavier cousin of known neutrinos that interacts only via gravity, sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry simultaneously. Anomalous X-ray signals from galaxy clusters detected by ESA's XMM-Newton telescope tantalyzed researchers, but subsequent analyses have cast doubt on the detection.

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