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In November 2019, researchers were astonished when they viewed its image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Dark matter is an invisible substance that astronomers believe plays an important role in the formation of galaxies and is thought to comprise 85 percent of the universe?s mass. This discovery not only challenges the ideas of how galaxies form, but also provides evidence that dark matter is real. It shows that dark matter is not always coupled with regular matter in galaxies and that it has its own separate existence. In addition to lacking dark matter, galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 is an anomaly because you can see straight through it. This is called an ultra-diffuse galaxy because it has an extremely low density. As a result of these findings, a team of researchers are hunting for more dark-matter deficient galaxies to better understand the nature of dark matter and the formation of galaxies.

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Earth’s surface may be teeming with trillions of dark matter particles

When dark matter is captured inside a planet or star, much of it sinks to the middle – but if it sometimes bounces off regular matter, there may be huge amounts of it lurking just beneath the surface

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How I gave a TED talk on dark matter

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W0MN5G This undated NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light-years away, December 30, 2014. As seen in this image, the disc of IC 335 appears edge-on from the vantage point of Earth. UPI/NASA

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Shredded dwarf galaxies may lack dark matter to hold them together

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.

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Two smart books probe multiverses, dark matter – and sexual politics

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World's most sensitive dark matter detector tested for the first time

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Why I'm choosing dark matter over dark energy - for now at least

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Why I'm choosing dark matter over dark energy - for now at least

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Strange gravitational wave echoes may let us probe dark matter

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Largest 3D map of the universe contains 8 million galaxies

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Sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter – if we can find them

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Sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter – if we can find them

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Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

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Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon

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The eternal debate about the eternal inflation of the universe

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Dark matter is slowing down the slab of stars at our galaxy’s centre

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Merging galaxies throw shade on alternative dark matter theory

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Thrilling hints of elusive dark matter particles are starting to fade

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