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An illuminating dark halo

A large simulation reveals that most of the detectable signal from dark matter in our Milky Way probably comes from the main, smooth Galactic halo, rather than from small clumps.

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Figure 1: Dark matter around the Milky Way.

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Colombi, S. An illuminating dark halo. Nature 456, 44–45 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456044a

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