Hubble discovers ring of dark matter

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An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter formed long ago during a colossal collision between two galaxy clusters. This is the first time that dark matter has been found with a distribution that differs substantially from the distribution of ordinary matter. Video date- 15-May 2007. Video source- http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0709a.html Blog with a basic summary of our understanding of dark matter- http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=120129993...

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  • so is dark matter fact now?

  • This is sooooo groovy!!!!

  • 1:24 i wanna call that number and whisper 'seven days...'

  • @m4c13k86 dr. tarkin signing off

  • what they call dark matter is faint light emitted from ordinary low density plasma moving in enormous filaments of currents. those filements are the power source for the galaxies. the galaxies act like a fuel pump conduit for energy and matter to form new high density networks of filamentary currents that again form new conduits that we call stars. the stars grow in size until there is enough conserved energy to fuel a new network and new stars. thats whats the particle beam jets are for.

  • lol i missheard him @ 4:30 "this is dr J signing off. for the holocaust!" couple this with his slight german accent...

  • @mikaelnilsson75 I know you probably don't care too much anymore (your post is 9 months old) but I figured I'd quickly answer:

    A supermassive black hole (herein named SMBH) can also bend and distort light, but not to the effect of a galaxy cluster. Remember, most if not all galaxies have SMBHs at their centers. So in a galaxy cluster...many many SMBHs are present, thereby increasing the effect of gravity exponentially

  • He sounds good to me you lot must be used to george bush too much.

  • shouldnt a massive black hole do the same distorsen whith the light

  • @mikeweijers There's nothing wrong with his voice.

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