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Are Supermassive Black Holes Hiding Matter?
universetoday.com ^ |  29 Feb , 2016 | Matt Williams

Posted on 02/29/2016 10:00:38 PM PST by BenLurkin

[S]cientists...for some time now, they have been working with a model that states that the Universe consists of 4.9% “normal” matter (i.e. that which we can see), 26.8% “dark matter” (that which we can’t), and 68.3% “dark energy”.

From what they have observed, scientists have also concluded that the normal matter in the Universe is concentrated in web-like filaments, which make up about 20% of the Universe by volume. But a recent study performed by the Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria has found that a surprising amount of normal matter may live in the voids, and that black holes may have deposited it there.

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As an ongoing research project run by an international collaboration of scientists (and using supercomputers from around the world), Illustris has created the most detailed simulations of our Universe to date. Beginning with conditions roughly 300,000 years after the Big Bang, these simulations track how gravity and the flow of matter changed the structure of the cosmos up to the present day, roughly 13.8 billion years later.

The process begins with the supercomputers simulating a cube of space in the universe, which measures some 350 million light years on each side. Both normal and dark matter are dealt with, particularly the gravitational effect that dark matter has on normal matter. Using this data, Haider and his team noticed something very interesting about the distribution of matter in the cosmos.

Essentially, they found that about 50% of the total mass of the Universe is compressed into a volume of 0.2%, consisting of the galaxies we see. A further 44% is located in the enveloping filaments, consisting of gas particles and dust. The remaining 6% is located in the empty spaces that fall between them...

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: blackhole; blackholes; stringtheory
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pta-gf6JaHQ

“Supermassive Black Hole,” by Muse. I’m series.


21 posted on 03/01/2016 6:19:20 AM PST by Tax-chick (I'm going to be an optimist about this.)
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To: BenLurkin

When I saw the headline I thought it was a story about Barry or Neil deGrasse Tyson. Still could be...


22 posted on 03/01/2016 3:33:18 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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Thanks BenLurkin.

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23 posted on 03/01/2016 5:00:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Math.


24 posted on 03/01/2016 5:44:59 PM PST by SunTzuWu
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Well, if black holes are hiding it should matter. what if one jumps out of hiding too close to our solarsystem? I mean, really! ... Wait! What?

Never mind.

25 posted on 03/01/2016 7:28:34 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: BenLurkin

Can this solve the mystery of where all those missing socks go?


26 posted on 03/02/2016 8:59:57 PM PST by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

By the effect it has on matter we can see.


27 posted on 03/02/2016 9:03:23 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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