A Distant Stream of Stars May Offer New Clues to Dark Matter

A Distant Stream of Stars May Offer New Clues to Dark Matter
By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/xqoNC64)

Dark matter continues to challenge astronomers as they work to solve the mystery of this so-far-unseen material that permeates the Universe. It's not that the stuff doesn't exist. It does, but we just can't see it. The only way it can be detected is by its gravitational effects on ordinary matter. A team of researchers led by University of Copenhagen PhD student Julie Kiel Holm has found a stream of stars stretching out more than 3,000 light-years from a globular cluster that appears to have been shaped by dark matter in a distant galaxy.

August 26, 2026 at 12:23AM
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