Published:
February 1, 2007
| No one knows for sure. Dark matter was proposed by Swiss-American astronomer Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974) in 1933 to explain why the Coma galaxy cluster appeared to have a stronger gravitational field than expected if it were composed of matter that interacts with light.
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