Astronomers may have just caught the first direct hint of dark matter. A new study says gamma rays near the Milky Way’s center—seen by NASA’s Fermi spacecraft—match what you’d expect from colliding WIMPs, those long-proposed dark matter particles. Not everyone’s convinced yet, since other galaxies don’t show the same signal, but if it holds, it’s huge. Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter
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