Search for first stars yields proof of dark matter
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Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Astronomers say they've discovered evidence of dark matter. Scientists found the dark matter signatures while searching for the universe's first stars. According to a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and Arizona State University, the newly discovered signal is the product of interactions between normal and dark matter -- the first of its kind. The signal hails from the distance universe, when the cosmos was still in its infancy -- 180 million years after the Big Bang. "Dark matter is the key to unlocking the mystery of what the universe is made of," Rennan Barkana, head of the astrophysics department at Tel Aviv's School of Physics and Astronomy, said in a news release.
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