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Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously feeding supermassive black hole

Dark matter could magnify the jets of a ravenously feeding supermassive black holeWorldPing

A jet erupting from a distant supermassive black hole-powered blazar is being gravitationally lensed by an unseen clump of dark matter, and that could tell us about the source of cosmic "ghost" particles.

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