Mysterious MilkyWay Warp Finally Explained?

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Space.com is reporting that scientists think that a collision between mysterious 'dark matter' and two of the Milky Way's nearby neighbors may be causing our galaxy to warp 'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.' From the article: 'The warp is most clearly visible in a thin disk of hydrogen gas that extends across the entire 200,000-light-year diameter of the Milky Way. Viewed sideways, one half of the hydrogen disk appears to stick up above our galaxy's plane of stars and gas, while the other half dips below the plane for a bit and then rises upward again farther away from the galaxy's center.'"

Comments

hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps this is because the two-thirds of the people on Earth are fat. This could result in the part of the galaxy that Earth is located in to be weighed down which is warping the entire Milky Way.

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[ackthpt]

'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.'

What's a vinyl record?

;-)

Article summary in Limerick form

[melvin xavier]

There might a crash in the stars
Whose damage leaves oddly-shaped scars
Astronomists patter,
"It might be dark matter
That's making the warp so bizarre!"

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[Cattywampus]

Oh, great.

You've gone and mentioned your UID.

Now all the old farts with the five-digit-or-less UIDs are going to come out of the woodwork.

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[Rob Bos]

*shakes his cane*

young'in.

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[Timberwolf0122]

The additional mass and friction with dark matter is not only causing the milkway to warp like a record in the sun but also results in the milkyway playing at 45 speed unlike other LP class galaxies that naturaly travel at 78.

Re:**Beatles (thread to be bitchslapped in 3..2..)

[dair]

young'in.

Get the hell off my lawn!