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July 08, 2014

Reinterpreting dark matter
Leioa, Spain (SPX) Jul 08, 2014
Tom Broadhurst, an Ikerbasque researcher at the UPV/EHU's Department of Theoretical Physics, has participated alongside scientists of the National Taiwan University in a piece of research that explores cold dark matter in depth and proposes new answers about the formation of galaxies and the structure of the Universe. These predictions, published in the prestigious journal Nature Physics, are being contrasted with fresh data provided by the Hubble space telescope. In cosmology, cold dark matter is ... read more

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