“Until her death in 2016, Rubin was frequently listed as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in physics. Her most consequential realization was that galaxies rotate so quickly that they ought to fly apart. The fact that they don’t, she reasoned, is proof that there is a massive amount of, well, something in the universe that humans cannot yet study directly - what we now call dark matter.”
dark matter matters
Until her death in 2016, Rubin was frequently listed as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in physics.
Man, THAT had to to get annoying...