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Article: Hubble finds dark matter still a mystery. (Hubble Space Telescope observations indicate that dark matter is not composed of unseen dwarf stars) (Brief Article)
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- Science News
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- November 26, 1994
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For more than 2 decades, astronomers have found evidence that at least 90 percent of the matter in the universe goes unseen. Now, findings from the Hubble Space Telescope have dashed the hopes of researchers who had suggested that this invisible material, known as dark matter, might consist simply of ordinary stars too dim for ground-based telescopes to detect.
Instead, the Hubble data uphold the prevailing view that most of the mass in the cosmos consists of exotic material totally unlike the stuff that forms stats.
Although it wasn't certain that the cosmos possessed enough dim stars to account for dark matter, the assumption seemed plausible to some ...