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In other words, a study that was published in Nature Communications shows that dark matter appears to act much like regular matter, but there could also be some additional unknown interactions to be discovered. So any new insight, no matter how small, will help clarify dark matter's role in shaping the universe. So researchers, they started off by trying to determine whether dark matter sinks into gravitational wells the way regular matter does on huge scales. All massive objects distort and curve the fabric of space, forming gigantic wells where planets, stars, and galaxies fall into them. Even ourselves, our bodies, we form gravitational fields, gravitational wells around us, but they're so small they're insignificant. They don't make a huge difference on things around us.