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How Dark Matter Went From Crazy Idea To Bombshell Discovery

Dina Spector,Robert FerrisApr 7, 2013, 02:00 IST

ESA/NASA/HubbleA Portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud Taken by the Hubble TelescopeOn Wednesday, an international team of scientists announced they had found the most convincing evidence yet that dark matter exists.

Dark matter makes up at least a quarter of our universe. It's the invisible stuff that holds our stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies together. The problem is, no one has ever been able to prove that it exists.

The latest results are not conclusive, but they provide better evidence than any previous experiments, MIT astrophysicist Samuel Ting said in a news conference. We are closer than ever to one of the secrets of the universe.