It challenges the standard ideas of how we think galaxies work, and it shows that dark matter is real: it has its own separate existence apart from other components of galaxies. (outerplaces.com)
This finding seems to suggest that dark matter has «its own separate existence apart from other components of galaxies,» he added. (science.howstuffworks.com)
The naïve concept of the soul is that it is something like an invisible organ connected with the body during life but having a more or less distinct and separate existence within the body and, after life, capable of leading a completely independent existence. (religion-online.org)