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US astronomer Vera Rubin has died

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Newstalk ZB Staff ,
Publish Date
Tue, 27 Dec 2016, 11:09am
Vera Rubin, a pioneering US astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died. (Facebook)
Vera Rubin, a pioneering US astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died. (Facebook)

US astronomer Vera Rubin has died

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff ,
Publish Date
Tue, 27 Dec 2016, 11:09am

Vera Rubin, a pioneering US astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died.

She was 88.

Vera Rubin found that galaxies don't quite rotate the way they were predicted to.

That lent support to the theory that some other force was at work, namely dark matter.

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