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Caption: Brown University physicists studied seven dwarf galaxies, circled in white (click to enlarge). Observations indicate the dwarf galaxies are full of dark matter because their stars' motion cannot be fully explained by their mass alone, making them ideal places to search for dark matter annihilation signals.
Credit: Koushiappas and Geringer-Sameth, Brown University
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