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Simulations Show That Dark Matter Isn’t What Gives Stellar Streams Their Kinks

Simulated stellar streams arc around the Milky Way. Credit: Visualization by Arpit Arora and Adrian Price-Whelan. Milky Way image credit: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar.

Astronomers study dark matter through simulations of stellar streams around the Milky Way. They found that kinks and clumps within these streams aren’t caused by dark matter clusters within the galactic halo.

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