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Vikram Dhillon, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, had just spent half an hour showing what one of the world’s fastest astronomical cameras could do. HiPERCAM has studied white ...

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The Bullet Cluster is considered important evidence for the existence of dark matter. Now a research team believes it can explain its peculiarity differently.

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