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Virial Theorem

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1933

Fritz Zwicky1933

Science / Astronomy

While examining the Coma galaxy cluster in 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen matter, what is now called dark matter

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Fritz Zwicky

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