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...
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
How can they Joel ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’ when they do not even know what they are...
Black Holes Matter!
More importantly, do black holes matter?
A pox on you umgud! You beat me to it.
ROFL ROFL
Nope, but they are hiding Hillary Clinton
‘s deleted email
It seems discriminatory to always be talking about black ho’s. There are white ho’s as well.
OJ's "real killer".
Obama's Birth Certificate.
Mitch McConnell's Balls (*)
(*) theoretical construct only; no experimental evidence
+1
To which the standard response is, unimaginably, that all holes matter. :-)
See, there is "c" level, , then there is "B" level, and of course "A" level holes.
The latter are usually referred to as A holes.
If “normal matter” is only 4.9% of the total wouldn’t that make it really abnormal? Are we living in an aberration?
My guess is no. All the non-visible mass in the Universe seems to play a supporting role for the visible mass in the Universe.
It may not be an aberration and there may not be any material missing. It just may be in a form we do not yet recognize.
Or, like so many other areas of human knowledge, our theory of gravity is inaccurate. But hey let’s keep performing mental gymnastics so our precious consensus isn’t upset.
In Vino Veritas.
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