Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream

Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "A team in Switzerland has discovered that most of the small satellite galaxies around the Milky Way's near-twin, Andromeda, are lined up in a single plane that slices through Andromeda's spiral disc. Using images from the Hubble space telescope, soon to be decommissioned, the researchers found that 9 of the 14 of Andromeda's satellites lay on a relatively narrow plane bisecting Andromeda. From the article: 'The team believes the plane could have formed in several ways. In one scenario, the galaxies may have fallen towards Andromeda along an invisible filament of dark matter. Computer simulations show these filaments can form a cosmic web along which galaxies flow.'"

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Re:Sombrero Galaxies and You

[techno-vampire]

I think it's more like invisible strands of spaghetti.

You may be right. If so, that spaghetti is flying around the universe. Now, all we need to do is prove it's affecting evolution, and we've proven that His Noodleyness exists.