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Their results reveal a far more intricate, nonspherical dark matter structure than earlier models predicted -- one that naturally reproduces the spread of gamma rays without the need to invoke large numbers of pulsars.

From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025

This precession is caused by the pull of the sun and the moon acting on the slightly nonspherical shape of the earth.

From Time Magazine Archive