How to unravel the secrets of dark matter?

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Astrophysicist Françoise Combes.

Patrick Imbert

By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 min

How to unravel the secrets of dark matter?

Meeting with the specialist in dark matter and galaxies, astrophysicist Françoise Combes 2020 CNRS gold medalist.

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Let us wonder about the greatest mysteries of the Universe: the birth and death of galaxies, the presence of super massive black holes, the enigma of dark matter.

So many dizzying questions that are the daily life of our guest, the astrophysicist

explorer of the cosmos!

This woman with bright eyes and a generous smile is an extraordinary hunter of intergalactic molecules.

She was unanimous in the community of astrophysicists and cosmologists around the world for the importance of her discoveries and her research, but also for the way she knows how to make us pass the inconceivable the sidereal and the astonishing with so much simplicity and humility.

With the astrophysicist

who received

, for her research work (she notably discovered molecules at the bottom of the Universe).

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