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Researchers capture first 'image' of a dark matter web that connects galaxies
phys.org ^ | April 12, 2017 | Provided by: Royal Astronomical Society

Posted on 04/12/2017 11:53:27 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

is this just another modeling hoax like global warming.

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41 posted on 04/12/2017 2:07:30 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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I have read enough Sci-Fi to know this will end badly ...

On a more serious note: The outpouring of ignorant arrogance and jealousy from many on this thread is appalling.

42 posted on 04/12/2017 2:10:08 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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the science is settled on that for sure.


43 posted on 04/12/2017 2:23:48 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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I did NOT say that.


44 posted on 04/12/2017 2:25:05 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Red Badger

and if not that then a Trisolarian illusion.


45 posted on 04/12/2017 4:28:18 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Everyone has a right to be wrong...


46 posted on 04/12/2017 5:20:27 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Red Badger

They used gravitational lensing of light sources “behind” the two galaxies to determine where the dark matter is.

Dark matter has gravity, too, because it is matter.

They compared the degree of lensing caused by the two galaxies against the lensing caused by the dark matter, and they drew a map.

Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Gathering the data also seems like a significant technical achievement to me, too.


47 posted on 04/12/2017 5:23:21 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Amazing and yet it could all be nonsense and I wouldn’t know the difference. That’s why I popped in to see what smarter FReepers think.


48 posted on 04/12/2017 6:15:59 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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that’s what I thought


49 posted on 04/12/2017 8:02:42 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching a coup..........for now)
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