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[Interview] How Nancy Grace Roman Will Help Understand Dark Matter

Feb 03, 202436 min
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Understanding dark matter is one of the most interesting challenges in modern cosmology. Upcoming new telescopes, such as Nancy Grace Roman, can help us solve this mystery. How exactly will it happen? Finding out with Dr Christian Aganze from Stanford University.

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  • 00:00 Intro

  • 00:48 How Do We See Dark Matter

  • 08:30 Shape of Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo

  • 15:40 What NGR will change

  • 22:01 Possible conclusions

  • 29:16 Current obsessions

  • 33:27 Final thoughts

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