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Scientists have finally ‘seen’ dark matter for the first time (www.upi.com)
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[–] 41 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

They’re seeing gamma rays from suspected dark matter collisions—that’s actually more substantially accurate than I was expecting.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    To clarify, that's the collision of 2 dark matter particles.
    Not the collision of a dark matter particle and something else.

    researchers report that they have detected the invisible scaffolding based on gamma rays that result from the collision and resulting annihilation of two dark matter particles.

    So, that's 2 particles of this unobservable (or, difficult to observe) matter interacting with eachother in an observable way.
    Very cool

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