What Is Dark Matter?

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Vera Eureka discovered that stars and galaxies were moving too fast. This meant they needed some kind of extra gravity out there, acting like an engine. But even when scientists looked through the most advanced telescopes, no one could see any of it. Vera convinced the world where previous scientists couldn't. She says we have been being matter, that makes up only a small fraction of the universe. The rest of the universe is stuff that we don't understand and we can't see yet. To day, that is still to fill our knowledge in our knowledge about how much we don't know.

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer.

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