Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
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What’s it about?
A physicist proposes that dark matter—the universe's invisible scaffolding—may have triggered the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, linking cosmic structure to Earth's history.
You’ll learn
- Dark matter forms a dense disk in the galactic plane
- Earth's orbit bobs through this disk every 30 million years
- The disk's gravity nudges comets toward Earth
- Dinosaur extinction may fit a cosmic cycle