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Dark Matter's Profile Discovered?

pingbak writes "According to New Scientist, astronomers may have potentially discovered dark matter's EM profile (story). For the rest of us, this means astronomers may have just discovered all of the extra force holding the galaxy(-ies) together, which is not currently explainable though gravity and black holes at the center of universes alone. Since dark matter doesn't interact with ordinary matter, it's almost directly undetectable -- but now, physics and astronomy may just have had an awesome breakthrough. Nobel Prize material if it proves correct!"

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  1. Re:Gotta love Astro/Quantum physics by grunthos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, gotta love it. These are the same people who snort at "intelligent design" but then join SETI@Home because they think they can empirically identify intelligence...

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    My son's 5th grade teacher actually assigned them "write a limerick about a planet". I'm not kidding.