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: theguardian.com/science/2025/n

Vast red-hued Milky Way galaxy core filled with countless stars and cosmic dust clouds.
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