article_snippet: Scientists have discovered that there might be dark matter trapped inside the sun - and it could be  the solar interior.
article_snippet: The bold new theory suggests that a form of the mysterious particle - which has yet to be directly observed - is absorbed by the sun from the centre of our galaxy.
article_snippet: Durham University scientists say that dark matter may be transferring heat around its interior (artist's illustration shown).
article_snippet: scientists from Durham University propose that so-called asymmetric dark matter (ADM) could explain some inconsistencies in a new model for the sun.
article_snippet: Called 'dark matter', this substance appears to make up at least 80 per cent of the matter in the known universe.
article_snippet: It has previously been theorised that dark matter originating from elsewhere in the galaxy may have an affect on the sun - particularly It activity and even It structure.
article_snippet: Weakly-interacting dark matter from the galactic halo is captured when the galactic halo passes through the sun,’ the researchers note in the researchers paper.
article_snippet: The dark matter becomes gravitationally trapped within the sun because The dark matter does not contain much antimatter.
article_snippet: This means The dark matter is not destroyed when The dark matter interacts with other matter - so the sun likely has a steadily increasing amount of dark matter.
article_snippet: And this same dark matter could be having more of an effect on the sun than previously thought.
article_snippet: According to the researchers, dark matter (illustration shown) originates in the galactic halo of the Milky Way before passing through the sun - and in some instances, it becomes gravitationally trapped .
article_snippet: Dark matter particles are thought to absorb energy in the hottest, central parts of the core.
article_snippet: Dark matter particles then travel to different regions of the sun before scattering again and ‘re-depositing Dark matter particles energy,’ the researchers write.
article_snippet: To prove that this is really what is going on in the sun, we'd need to find a stable dark matter particle that interacts in this way with normal matter,' Dr Pat Scott from the Astrophysics group at  Imperial College London, who was involved in the research, told MailOnline. '
article_snippet: Either the next run of the Large Hadron Collider, or some of the next generation of direct searches for dark matter, should be able to find such a particle if such a particle exists.'
article_snippet: Another conclusions the scientists is that the type of dark matter in the sun is ‘asymmetric,’ as mentioned earlier, which means it contains very little antimatter.
article_snippet: ‘The relative absence of antimatter means that the density of the sun dark matter is not decreased over time,’ notes Kathy Fey from The Space Reporter.
article_snippet: ‘The calculations produced by the team suggest that dark matter displaying this property would transfer large amounts of heat from the sun
highlights_snippet: Durham University scientists say that dark matter may be transferring heat around dark matter interior .
  
highlights_snippet: The dark matter could be originating in the galactic halo of the Milky Way .