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Dark matter

Many birds, one stone

Nature Physics volume 5, pages 176–177 (2009)Cite this article

A new theory for dark matter has the power to explain several experimental results simultaneously, even those seemingly at odds with each other.

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Figure 1: Dark-matter annihilation.

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