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Vera Rubin, who did pioneering work on dark matter, dies

Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday.

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Earth might have hairy dark matter

filaments of dark matter

This illustration shows Earth surrounded by theoretical filaments of dark matter called “hairs.” Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or “hairs.”

Earth might have hairy dark matter

Observation of exotic pentaquark particles made…