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    WHAT IS DARK MATTER MADE OF?

    Jan 27, 2022 3 minutes

    Dark matter – the mysterious, invisible substance that exerts gravity but doesn’t interact with light – might be made of tiny black holes permeating the universe. And according to a new theory, those black holes might have been made from Fermi balls, quantum ‘bags’ of subatomic particles known as fermions that got smooshed together in dense pockets during the universe’s infancy.

    This theory could explain why dark matter came to dominate the universe. Scientists Ke-Pan Xie and collaborator Kiyoharu

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