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"Dark Matter" Observed

Posted by michael on from the i-was-blind-but-now-i-see dept.

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.

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  1. FP by djhankb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

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    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dam you djhankb! I thought this was going to be my chance.

  2. WIMP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    j00r m0mm4 is a WIMP

  3. Re:that makes more sence....... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hiskool? Be sensibble. I sence that this is not troo.

  4. Here's what doesn't make sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You spend all day refreshing the main Slashdot page, in hopes of posting an early, or even the first, comment on a news story that you have very little to contribute to...

    Then you see it... A new story. *Pounce*

    You feverishly type in your reply, making it appear as though you have a genuine interest in the story, but in your haste, you mis-spell the word "sense," not once, which could simply have been a typo, but twice, confirming that you are indeed an ignorant twit.

    1. Re:Here's what doesn't make sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.............

      no.

    2. Re:Here's what doesn't make sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Funny how your off-topic reply to my off-topic reply has not been modded down yet, making it appear on the story page as though you are in disagreement not with what I wrote, but with the parent of my comment.

    3. Re:Here's what doesn't make sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      not any longer:-)

  5. MACHO, MACHO man. . . by Limburgher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've got to be, a dim dwarf star man. . . Que es mas MACHO? Tu? Si! Mas MACHO! There are so many possibilities. I have dibs on the next one they find.

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