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Bright light hints at a dark centre to the Galaxy

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Mysterious matter may be colliding at the Milky Way's core.

Researchers are once again proposing that an orbiting telescope may have seen evidence for dark matter — the undetected material that is believed to permeate the Universe.

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  1. Goodenough, L. & Hooper, D. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2998 (2009).

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  1. Geoff Brumfiel
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Brumfiel, G. Bright light hints at a dark centre to the Galaxy. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.1018

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