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Breakthrough Discovery Doubles Pulsars in Dark Matter Research

2/26/2025

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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, under Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti's leadership, have made a groundbreaking discovery in dark matter research. By employing solitary pulsars to gauge galactic accelerations, they've potentially doubled the number of pulsars for study. Astonishingly, they detected less than 1 kilogram of dark matter in a space comparable to Earth.

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Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, under Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti's leadership, have made a groundbreaking discovery in dark matter research. By employing solitary pulsars to gauge galactic accelerations, they've potentially doubled the number of pulsars for study. Astonishingly, they detected less than 1 kilogram of dark matter in a space comparable to Earth.