Article: Big question, invisible answer,: Scientists on verge of detecting universe's dark matter

WASHINGTON - After a 70-year hunt, astronomers and physicists think they'll soon be able to identify "dark matter," a ghostly glue that keeps the galaxies, including our own Milky Way, from flying apart.

Telescopes in space and detectors buried deep underground are searching for this mysterious substance, which is at least five times more plentiful than ordinary matter, the stuff of stars, planets, trees and people.

Finding it would answer a fundamental question in science: What is much of the universe made of?

Dark matter is thought to consist of an enormous swarm of

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