Physicists may be tantalizingly close to identifying what dark matter is made of

There’s some potentially big news on the hunt for dark matter.

...Understanding what dark matter is remains a pressing fundamental scientific question. It’s also key to understanding the origin and future of the Universe. Astronomers have suspected its existence since early in the 20th century. However, it wasn’t “proven” to exist until Vera Rubin and others made observations that provided strong evidence for “something” out there influencing the motions and distributions of galaxies. FULL STORY from Inverse