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DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Dark Matter

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One potential source of cosmic gamma rays could be dark matter. A leading theory predicts the mysterious stuff is made of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, which could annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays when they collide.

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Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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