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Article: Astronomers Find Clues to Space Mystery // Teams Report Seeing Dark Matter
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 21, 1993
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NEW YORK Astronomers believe they have taken their first look at
the mysterious dark matter that makes up as much as 90 percent of the
universe.
An American team and a French team independently reported
evidence Monday that the dark matter is made up of billions of
Jupiter-sized objects, a finding that could resolve a 50-year-old
puzzle of central importance in modern astronomy.
"Eight days ago, a couple of members of the team noticed this
astounding event, which has caused enormous excitement amongst us,"
said the head of the American team, Charles Alcock of Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Alcock said it is impossible to be certain that dark matter has
been seen ...