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Astrophysicists Reveal Amount of Dark Matter is Less Than Previously Thought
SciTech Daily ^ | 10/09/2014 | Source: International Center for Radio Astronomy Research

Posted on 10/10/2014 1:00:47 PM PDT by Red Badger

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Artist’s impression of the Milky Way and its dark matter halo (shown in blue, but in reality invisible). Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

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This animation shows a supercomputer simulation of a galaxy like the Milky Way and its invisible dark matter halo. We zoom in to the galaxy and can see knots of dark matter where we would expect to see many satellite galaxies, but they don’t exist in the real Universe. That’s the missing satellite problem. Credit: Prof Chris Power and Dr Rick Newton, ICRAR. Music by Reuben Christman

1 posted on 10/10/2014 1:00:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis

Space Ping!

If you didn’t know how much there was in the first place, how would you know half of it was missing?.............


2 posted on 10/10/2014 1:01:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Still awaiting explanation of the Great Attractor, and what it is.


3 posted on 10/10/2014 1:07:52 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Red Badger

That damn Glowbull Warming is up to it’s nefarious ways again.


4 posted on 10/10/2014 1:11:42 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Red Badger

wonder how much is in Moochele’s trunk?


5 posted on 10/10/2014 1:14:14 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: PIF

Still awaiting explanation of the GRAVITY, and what it is...............


6 posted on 10/10/2014 1:14:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: bigbob

That would be a really big Black Hole......................


7 posted on 10/10/2014 1:15:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Are they going to now have to doublecheck ALL their findings using common core math?


8 posted on 10/10/2014 1:16:45 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Red Badger

I like dark chocolate but not Milky Way. Snickers is better.


9 posted on 10/10/2014 1:17:24 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Red Badger
Astrophysicists Reveal Amount of Dark Matter is Less Than Previously Thought

Bush's fault!

10 posted on 10/10/2014 1:28:41 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Red Badger

Aahh man... I was hoping to get a ton of this Unobtainium to play with on my forge this weekend...


11 posted on 10/10/2014 1:31:04 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: PIF
Still awaiting explanation of the Great Attractor, and what it is.

It's like the drain at the bottom of a pool.

12 posted on 10/10/2014 1:32:45 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Red Badger
Isaac Newton explained how gravity works, more or less (some corrections by Albert Einstein). But I don't think he explained why there is gravity to begin with.

OK, so every particle of matter attracts every other particle of matter. But why? Why doesn't matter just mind its own business and not bother any other bits of matter? Cosmic busybodies. Matter must be "Progressive."

And why does light keep traveling for billions of years? Don't the light beams ever get tired?

13 posted on 10/10/2014 1:34:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Dead Corpse

Unobtainium can be had by the shipload.
All you have to do is get to the nearest Pulsar and back...............


14 posted on 10/10/2014 1:35:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

I’m offended.

How will I ever get my fair share of dark matter now?

This sucks, it’s completely unfair.

Think I’ll take down the convenience store down the block. I’ll wait til it’s dark. They can suck on their dark matter. Yeah.


15 posted on 10/10/2014 1:36:41 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t own a ship. Ergo, I don’t need an entire shipload of it.

Just wanted to see if I could hammer it into a decent set of mitten gauntlets and a set of pauldrons.


16 posted on 10/10/2014 1:37:53 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Describing the effects of Gravity is not the same as knowing what it is.


17 posted on 10/10/2014 1:38:22 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Gravity is just the label we put on something that we don’t know how it works but know that it does.

Mass depresses the fabric of space-time, creating a ‘gravity well’, or so they tell us. Every bit of mass depresses it to some extent.

If you had a universe where only two atoms of hydrogen existed, and they were a billion light years apart, they would eventually collide or settle into a stable orbit around a central point............


18 posted on 10/10/2014 1:39:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Dead Corpse

Well, I don’t know about ‘pauldrons’ but you could probably hammer it into a Ron Paul...................


19 posted on 10/10/2014 1:42:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
They probed the edge of the Milky Way, looking closely, for the first time, at the fringes of the galaxy about 5 million billion kilometers from Earth

They probably haven't factored in that Negative Energy barrier ....

20 posted on 10/10/2014 1:43:02 PM PDT by mikrofon (ST:TOS Pilot #2 a/k/a "DON'T Go There!")
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