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Mysterious Blob of Darkness Found Lurking Deep in Distant Galaxy


In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter embedded in a galaxy whose light took 7.3 billion years to reach us.

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