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"Dark Matter" Observed
An anonymous submitter writes: "The space news site Space Flight Now has an article about the first direct "observation" of so called dark matter. Galaxies appear to have more gravitation (mass) than we can currently observe. The theory of dark matter tries to explain this missing mass by the existence of massive bodies too faint to detect. These bodies include everything from dim stars to exotic particles called WIMPs. The previously dark matter, a dwarf star, was detected when it passed in front of a brighter blue star, creating a gravitational lens. It is thought that there are many more like it out there creating all that extra gravity, we just can't see them." Wired has another story; or see the European Space Agency's original article.
How long until Dark Matter is banned as a circumvention device for light waves?
The universe is held together with duct tape and karma. What goes around, comes around, and gets stuck to your forehead.
The result greatly strengthens the argument that a large fraction of the 'normal' Dark Matter in and around our Galaxy exists in the form of MACHOs and that this Dark Matter is not as dark as previously believed!
Does anyone else have the feeling we are just playing peek-a-boo.
"Hey, its dark in here. Where did everyone go?"
"Ummm, move your hands!?"
"Oh, there they are. That was really weird!"
You've just got to love cosmology...
"we're all gonna die"
I'm going to die in about 50 years (give or take 10), if you're going to die in a couple trillion, I wouldn't be that depressed, but maybe you better live it up while you can.
Expand into nothing, compressed to a single point, eaten by a giant galactic space goat; it's all the same to me. I'd be more concerned about our sun burning out in a couple billion years myself....
Learn about a dark light here.
"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." -Turkish Proverb
In my kid's diaper..
In that catbox....
Oh wait.. that's not what you're talking about, is it?
Polymorphism -- It's what you make of it.
Maybe the Hubble lens has a smudge...
Randomly clicking into the moebiac abyss...