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Our Galaxy Floats Inside a 'Pancake' Made of Dark Matter, Astronomers Discover

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a blueberry in a pancake, new research suggests.

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