The Biggest Argument for Dark Matter Just Died

By Sabine Hossenfelder

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Take back your personal data with Incogni! Use code Sabine at the link below and get 60% off annual plans: https://incogni.com/sabine Physicists have been arguing about dark matter for almost a century, and now, after all this time, their most favourite evidence for dark matter – the Bullet Cluster – disappeared. This isn’t just an interesting development from a scientific perspective, it is also a good illustration for what is going wrong in this research area. I have a brief summary. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1103/6zrp-q7c4 #science #sciencenews #physics #astrophysics 👕T-shirts, mugs, posters and more: ➜ https://sabines-store.dashery.com/ 💌 Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg 👉 Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine 📝 Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ 📩 Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ 👂 Audio only podcast ➜ https://open.spotify.co

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