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New Limits on Dark Matter


As it’s name suggests, dark matter is dark! That means it's largely invisible to us and only detectable through its interaction with gravity. One of the leading theories to explain the stuff that makes up the majority of the matter in the Universe are WIMPs, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles.

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