"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.

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Wrong Assumptions?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's funny how astronomers had to invent this "Dark Matter" when observations wouldn't agree with their hypotheses. So instead of re-thinking their hypotheses, they spend all their time trying to prove this idea in order to salvage their theories. There is another possible explanation to why we even need dark matter in the first place. Check out:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/magazi ne s/tj/v13n1_milky-way.asp

an article published a few years ago by equally qualified scientists with Ph D's.