Scientists Map Dark Matter.

Posted by Anita in Pictures on May 15, 2007 at 8:30 pm


Dark matter ring

Today scientists announced that they had mapped a ring of dark matter around a galaxy cluster utilizing gravitational distortions observed in photographs taken by the Hubble space telescope.

This is a groundbreaking discovery, since for decades scientists had theorized that the bulk of the Universe is held together by dark matter, and that this matter could not be observed since it neither emits nor reflects light.

Read more at the Bad Astronomy Blog.


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