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1 posted on 04/12/2017 11:53:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
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why does the dark matter look so angry?


2 posted on 04/12/2017 11:55:13 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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Planet Eater from Star Trek


3 posted on 04/12/2017 11:55:18 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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...dark matter... that connects galaxies.

Just as we always suspected:


5 posted on 04/12/2017 11:57:59 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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Dark matter matters?


7 posted on 04/12/2017 11:59:16 AM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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An artist’s rendition of something they don’t even know what it is.


12 posted on 04/12/2017 12:08:12 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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How does one gather images of things that do not exist?
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13 posted on 04/12/2017 12:10:04 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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If it’s matter it can be touched.


15 posted on 04/12/2017 12:12:07 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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"Dark matter, a mysterious substance" that keeps the standard model of cosmology from being laughed out of the room.

See all those pretty spiral galaxies in all the pretty pictures? Not enough detectable mass there to keep them from flying apart as they spin - so some mysterious "invisible" mass was needed to keep careers intact. And of course it was found. Theoretically found that is.
19 posted on 04/12/2017 12:17:45 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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I’d conclude that they call it “dark” matter merely because it’s not visible. As a Believer, I think that, if dark matter is anything, it is the physical manifestation of what is declared about Christ in Colossians Chapter 1. HE, is holding the entire Creation together. Check Colossians 1 online to get the entire picture.


20 posted on 04/12/2017 12:18:51 PM PDT by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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On step closer to a working Stargate?


21 posted on 04/12/2017 12:20:59 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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Researchers capture Photoshop first 'image' of a dark matter web that connects galaxies

A more correct Title

24 posted on 04/12/2017 12:26:21 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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Space Ghost!


29 posted on 04/12/2017 12:41:11 PM PDT by Harpotoo
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I think 99.99% of the universe is made up of stuff we can’t touch, see, smell, or detect in any way. We can’t talk about it or even think about it. We can’t even name it. Or remember it. In fact, by tomorrow no one will remember this post. As “stuff” it is as close to not existing as any stuff could be. That’s how elusive it is. Where’s my proof? Are you kidding? This stuff cannot be proven to exist. That’s probably its only real property. Equations pass right through it. Now where’s my Nobel? Before we forget.


32 posted on 04/12/2017 12:53:43 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Intergalactic smegma.


34 posted on 04/12/2017 1:00:01 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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looks upside down


35 posted on 04/12/2017 1:07:09 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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So astrophysics is more like climate “science” now. Just photoshop together some image based on a theory. Cool.


36 posted on 04/12/2017 1:07:14 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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Epicycles upon epicycles.


37 posted on 04/12/2017 1:10:03 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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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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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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