Is Fermi seeing Dark Matter?

The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze..
A team of Harvard researchers has upped the ante in the race to discover the true nature of dark matter. see this from Sky and Telescope.

Making Xray emission from binary stars and blackholes in the lab.

From Nature: A team of researchers has used a high-power laser, a tiny hollow plastic pellet and silicon foil to reproduce the X-rays emitted by stars. Shinsuke Fujioka of Osaka University in Japan and his colleagues fired 12 green laser beams at the pellet, compressing and heating it. As the plastic became superheated, silicon atoms near the pellet were ionized, releasing X-rays resembling those seen in two distant binary star systems, where one star is orbiting another.

The authors believe the study could help to refine models for such astronomical systems, and that the radiation from the superheated pellets might recreate the conditions thought to exist at the edge of a black hole.

Check out Stars in a Pellet journal paper.