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Loading contentFritz Zwicky inferred unseen mass in the Coma cluster in 1933, and from the 1970s Vera Rubin's galaxy rotation curves showed that galaxies are dominated by invisible 'dark matter'.
Revealed that most of the matter in the universe is of an unknown, non-luminous kind.
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