Is Dark Matter Really Just a Tiny Sliver of the Universe?

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Everything we know, everything we see is really only a tiny sliver of the universe. It's something that should make us all feel really humble, as well as be in total awe. We're just like tiny witnesses ware her for a speck. Our life spans are tiny, not even a wink of the y, as it were. I mean, i think it gives you intellectual and kind of epistemic humility rit that we are simultaneously like, super insignificant, you know, tiny, tiny of the universe."

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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