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********Mysterious web of dark matter found*********

 
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Canadian and French scientists have found enormous chunks of super-mysterious dark matter each 270 million light-years wide, stretching across the sky like giant cobwebs.
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OTTAWA - Canadian and French scientists have found enormous chunks of super-mysterious dark matter each 270 million light-years wide, stretching across the sky like giant cobwebs.

And it's all invisible. Dark matter is material that we can't see or detect with any known instrument. But it's suspected of being six times more common in the universe than regular matter - stars and planets and your body.

This huge network of dark matter shows up only indirectly. Its gravity is strong enough to distort the light of entire galaxies - hundreds of millions of stars at a time.

Astronomers call this a "lensing" effect: They see the light of ordinary stars bending, as if through a lens, which tells them there's some invisible object to cause that bending. Voila - dark matter.

The size of this dark mass is mind-boggling. At 270 million light-years wide (i.e. a distance that would take a beam of light 270 million years to cross) it's 2,700 times wider than our own Milky Way galaxy. And the Milky Way is no shrimp: It holds at least 200 billion stars.

The discovery comes from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, which sits high on an extinct volcano called Mauna Kea to rise above the lower atmosphere. "We have a significant detection of many structures of that size, not (just) a single one," said Ludovic Van Waerbeke of the University of British Columbia, the lead Canadian in the group.

"It's like a web. If we could see the dark matter with the eye, it we would see a web of dark matter structures across the sky," each in the 270-million- light-year scale.

"Galaxies live inside of (these) structures. So those structures are much bigger than any galaxy cluster or even super-cluster that you would find in the sky."
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Link?
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Also coordinates please to turn telescopes to. Without coordinates, this could be.....


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That gay guy in the avatar detracts from your credibility. Please choose something respectable.
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That gay guy in the avatar detracts from your credibility. Please choose something respectable.
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No, that's how people in India look
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And it's all invisible. Dark matter is material that we can't see or detect with any known instrument.
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This article really contradicts itself. How can we see it with a telescope (which is a known instrument) if its invisible??
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Alice in Wonderland bullshit of the first order!

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That gay guy in the avatar detracts from your credibility. Please choose something respectable.


No, that's how people in India look
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Well at least they have teeth and don't beg for pesos outside of Jollibee!
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Well at least they have teeth and don't beg for pesos outside of Jollibee!
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Haha... I had a kid beg me for money outside of mini stop while he was eating an ice cream cone... wtf?
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Well at least they have teeth and don't beg for pesos outside of Jollibee!


Haha... I had a kid beg me for money outside of mini stop while he was eating an ice cream cone... wtf?
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Yes, I know the feeling all too well- especially as an American ex-pat working abroad. Ingat ka!
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Well at least they have teeth and don't beg for pesos outside of Jollibee!


Haha... I had a kid beg me for money outside of mini stop while he was eating an ice cream cone... wtf?


Yes, I know the feeling all too well- especially as an American ex-pat working abroad. Ingat ka!
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how the fuck can you find something you cant see???
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And it's all invisible. Dark matter is material that we can't see or detect with any known instrument.

This article really contradicts itself. How can we see it with a telescope (which is a known instrument) if its invisible??
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son of a bitch beat me to it redface
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Dont forget that "Dark Energy" is more abundant than "Dark Matter"> So how do they differentiate between the two of those?



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Re: ********Mysterious web of dark matter found*********
And it's all invisible. Dark matter is material that we can't see or detect with any known instrument.

This article really contradicts itself. How can we see it with a telescope (which is a known instrument) if its invisible??

son of a bitch beat me to it redface
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I was going more along the lines of the words they chose to use in the first part but "lensing effect" is how they know it's there.

Dont forget that "Dark Energy" is more abundant than "Dark Matter"> So how do they differentiate between the two of those?



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Im stealing that picture.
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Dark matter will be remembered as bad science.

I have always stood by that. Give it time. Trying to fix your bad math calculations by adding a "mysterious invisible matter that no one can see but is 6 times more common than matter" is just silly.
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....in my pants.
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