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The Fabric of the Universe

Monday, July 16, 2012

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Scientists have discovered a substance that could explain what holds the universe together. Not the Higgs Boson, but “dark matter”. Those who study the cosmos have theorized about the existence of dark matter, which they believe connects galaxies, and gives the universe its shape, sort of like a skeleton. Now, for the first time, researchers have detected direct evidence of dark matter linking two galaxies that are over two-billion light years from Earth. University of Michigan researcher Jörg Dietrich is the lead author of a paper on the discovery, published in this month’s “Nature” magazine. WDET’s Pat Batcheller asked Dr. Dietrich how dark matter is different from normal matter.

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