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Can you catch dark matter with a fish hook?

Title:  Hooks & Bends in the radial acceleration relation: discriminatory tests for dark matter and MONDAuthors: F. Mercado et al. Authors’ Institution:  Pomona College and CaltechStatus: Published...

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Jupiter as a Dark Matter Detector

Title: Search for dark matter ionization on the night side of Jupiter with CassiniAuthors: Carlos Blanco and Rebecca K. LeaneFirst Author’s Institution: Princeton University, Department of Physics,...

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Spiky dark matter around supermassive black holes

Title: The first robust evidence showing a dark matter density spike around the supermassive black hole in OJ 287Authors: Man Ho Chan, Chak Man LeeFirst Author’s Institution: Department of Science and...

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Could a heart of darkness power pair-instability supernovae?

Title: Dark Matter Annihilation and Pair-Instability SupernovaeAuthors: Djuna Croon and Jeremy SaksteinFirst Author’s Institution: Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics,...

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Don’t Be So Cold – Self-Interacting Dark Matter as a Solution to the ‘Final...

Title: Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole MergerAuthors: Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez, James M. Cline, and Caitlyn DewarFirst author institution:...

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Snow White and the seven(teen) dwarves search for dark matter

Title: An indirect search for dark matter with a combined analysis of dwarf spheroidal galaxies from VERITASAuthors: The VERITAS CollaborationStatus: Accepted to PRD Making, shaking, and breaking dark...

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That’s No Moon! The Search for Black Hole Asteroids, Stars, and Planets

Title: Dancing with invisible partners: Three-body exchanges with primordial black holesAuthors: Badal Bhalla, Benjamin V. Lehmann, Kuver Sinha, Tao XuFirst Author’s Institution: Homer L. Dodge...

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Does dark matter play a role in the origin story of supermassive black holes?

Title: Direct-collapse supermassive black holes from relic particle decayAuthors: Yifan Lu, Zachary S. C. Picker, Alexander KusenkoFirst Author’s Institution: Department of Physics and Astronomy,...

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Shining (the wrong?) light on Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Title: Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets in Cold Dark MatterAuthors: Cian Roche, Michael McDonald, Josh Borrow, Mark Vogelsberger, Xuejian Shen, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist, Ruediger Pakmor, Sownak...

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Galaxy Clusters: Your Home for Wings. Lensing. Dark Matter.

Paper Title: BUFFALO Wild Wings: A High Precision Free-Form Lens Model of MACSJ0416 with Constraints on Dark Matter from Substructure and Highly Magnified ArcsAuthors: Derek Perera, Liliya L. R....

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