Dark Matter

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• Shedding Bent Light on Dark Matter

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• Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter

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• Dark Matter Revealed in Webb, Hubble Observations

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• LZ Dark Matter on X: "😶‍🌫️ We’ve taken our first steps into the neutrino fog! LZ has just set world leading limits on low mass dark matter AND has observed neutrinos from the sun’s core. ☀️ https://t.co/4oNhpXYEhy" / X

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Research references

Selected sources from the episode’s research and scientific figures.

1. Chandra Photo Album, 30 June 2025 ↗
2. PDG 2025 Dark Matter review ↗
3. NASA LAMBDA cosmological evolution ↗
4. MPA MUSE filament release ↗
5. ESO media lead ↗
6. Millennium visualizations ↗
7. McAlpine et al. ↗
8. Uchuu DR1 ↗
9. Fermilab/DESI release ↗
10. Bertone & Hooper history ↗
11. rubin ford 1970 ↗
12. SPARC database ↗
13. Begeman 1989 bibliographic record ↗
14. National Air and Space Museum object page ↗
15. Wikimedia Commons ↗
16. 10 iconic photographs ↗
17. Clowe et al., “A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter” ↗
18. Cha et al. 2025 ↗
19. Cho et al. ↗
20. arXiv:2601.22245 ↗
21. Planck 2018 VI ↗
22. A&A version ↗
23. PDG 2025 BBN review ↗
24. Planck Legacy Archive spectrum page ↗
25. 2026 review ↗
26. Chae 2024 ↗
27. Hernandez 2025 response ↗
28. Cookson et al. 2026 ↗
29. LZ preprint ↗
30. Berkeley Lab release, 8 Dec 2025 ↗
31. Accepted PRL paper ↗
32. arXiv:2601.11296 ↗
33. XLZD institutional overview ↗
34. ESA Gaia archive ↗
35. ESA 2026 highlights ↗
36. Nature 563, 85 ↗
37. ESA “Galactic ghosts” ↗
38. MNRAS stellar-mass analysis ↗
39. ApJL 986 L21 ↗
40. arXiv:2606.04462 ↗
41. Gaia all-sky Milky Way ↗
42. Fly between Gaia stars ↗
43. Gaia poster/data visualizations ↗
44. https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1908e/): ↗
45. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2018/04/Fly_between_Gaia_stars/%28lang%29/en): ↗
46. https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/posters): ↗
47. Berkeley Lab/DESI, 19 March 2025 ↗
48. DESI DR2 paper guide ↗
49. Rubin announcement ↗
50. The rotation curve and mass distribution of M31 ↗
51. How dark matter came to matter ↗
52. zwicky 1933 original ↗

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