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World Service,2 mins

How do we know dark matter is real?

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The universe behaves as though there’s a lot more stuff out there than we can see. But we don’t know what that stuff is, or quite how we're going to find it. Cosmologist Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein helps us understand this ‘dark matter problem,’ and imagines what a spoonful of dark matter might feel like in your hand.

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