Dark Matter Behaving Badly
That dark matter! Just when scientists think they understand it, dark matter goes and throws a wild party.
Or something like that. Maybe that’s teenagers and parents.
But in any case, scientists have found a patch of dark matter that is not behaving the way current theory would predict. It’s mixed in with the gases and dust, rather than being around the stars.
The nerve. Really.
Actually, I can’t help but think that misbehaving dark matter could be a good thing for figuring it out. It is so often the exceptions that really make science interesting. Exceptions can be what refine the theory and make the nature of dark matter that much clearer.
Or should I say darker?
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