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The dark side

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Evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe is overwhelming. But how close are we to finding out what it really is?

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Figure 1: The flat rotation curve.

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Figure 2: Consistency of the cosmological parameters.
Figure 3: The cosmic baryon abundance.

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