Dark Matter's Profile Discovered?

Posted by michael on Thursday October 2, 2003 @01:45AM from the dark-visions-in-daylight dept.

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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Re:Electrons? by KDan · 2003-10-02 01:56 · Score: 1, Insightful

Yes, electrons are rather unlikely to be at rest at the centre of the galaxy. I could go into a long explanation of why this is so, but that would be wasted on you wouldn't it?

Daniel

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