A paper co-authored by Juri Smirnov, a fellow at The Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, suggests exoplanets (planets outside of our solar system) and their temperature may play a large role in detection of dark matter. This method of detection could provide new insights into dark matter, the mysterious substance that can’t be directly observed, but which makes up roughly 80% of the mass of the universe.

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