Dr. Paul Sutter returns with Ars Technica’s Edge of Knowledge series to run us through the course of one of the most common forms of matter in the universe; in fact, it’s the most common out of them all. What’s odd, however, is that we know it’s there, but we don’t know what it precisely is. What is “dark matter,” anyway?
What Makes Dark Matter “Dark?”
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