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New look at 'Einstein rings' around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate

Written by: Rossana Ruggeri, Research Fellow in Cosmology, The University of Queensland

ESA / Hubble & NASA

Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can see.

We’re not crazy! Without this “dark matter”, the universe as we see it would make no sense.

But the nature of dark matter is a...

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