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Published online 7 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070101-7

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Dark matter mapped

First three-dimensional picture of elusive matter throws up mystery.

Hot on the heels of evidence last year that dark matter really does exist (see 'Dark matter spied in galactic collision'), the same technique has been used to map this uncharacterized mass across half a million distant galaxies.

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