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Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...
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New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...
A photographer has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. Michael Steven Harris’ photograph of a ‘milky way over the West ...
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Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...