How Vera Rubin Broke Barriers in Astronomy | NOVA | PBS

Vera Rubin's work provided convincing evidence for a mysterious substance, dark matter.

In the past 50 years, thanks to Vera Rubin and others, dark matter has become an essential scientific building block, at the foundation of our understanding of the universe.

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