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Dark matter is everywhere around us, but the stuff isn’t distributed evenly across our universe – instead, it clumps together in and around galaxies. Even within galaxies, it should form dense “subhalos,” which are clumps of higher density. In a new study, physicists say they detected one such clump just 3,000 lightyears away from our Milky Way. Amazing if true. Let’s take a look.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.16932v1

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