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The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved
phys.org ^ | October 13, 2020 | by Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Posted on 10/13/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/13/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Dark Matter Matters.


2 posted on 10/13/2020 12:54:48 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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I can’t get through the most basics questions working today for some reason...so this will just cause brain matter to splatter all over my laptop screen.

It wouldn’t be much :)


3 posted on 10/13/2020 12:57:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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All Matter Matters (except for atoms - you can’t trust them; they make up everything)


4 posted on 10/13/2020 12:57:45 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (This space vacant until further notice in compliance with social distancing 'guidelines')
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Matter is almost totally nothing, just empty space with some particles or something whizzing around making force fields we “touch”. So I say...

Nothing Matters


5 posted on 10/13/2020 1:04:38 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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I remember when I was a kid, reading a Disney book on science (they had them) that stated if the empty space between the nucleus and electron shells of atoms could be eliminated, you could fit 50,000 navy battleships into the dimensions of a baseball.


6 posted on 10/13/2020 1:12:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I think the question should be shelved until someone (or a probe) can actually get out there and bring back a sample of contents of that galaxy cluster.


7 posted on 10/13/2020 1:13:16 PM PDT by glorgau
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Agreed. We don’t even ever touch anything, but like walking across the dance floor in hope of kissing a pretty girl, we eventually get close enough to feel the result of her repulsion.


8 posted on 10/13/2020 1:17:05 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (This space vacant until further notice in compliance with social distancing 'guidelines')
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This astonishing discovery will change the lives of millions! Wait, no, billions!!!


9 posted on 10/13/2020 1:23:07 PM PDT by exinnj
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I’m anti-matter.


10 posted on 10/13/2020 1:30:57 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Dark Matter Lives


11 posted on 10/13/2020 1:32:04 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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We can all sleep better tonight...


12 posted on 10/13/2020 1:33:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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Yes, that is one mystery that in the wee hours will no longer beguile us from sleep . . .


13 posted on 10/13/2020 1:36:24 PM PDT by Rockingham
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We can all sleep better tonight...
Thankyou Teymoor Saifollahi ...


14 posted on 10/13/2020 1:36:28 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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I dreamed I was walking through a quantum field when suddenly I could feel the Force all around me. I didn’t know if I felt special or relative but ambled onward in hopes of finding Schroedingers cat. The cat was chasing some string, or at least that was the theory. My friend Newton was no help in this matter whatsoever.


15 posted on 10/13/2020 1:43:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Rome wasn't built in a day. All Hail the night shift!)
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To: Red Badger

I have some dark matter around here somewhere. I can never find it.


16 posted on 10/13/2020 1:49:51 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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I can’t get through the most basics questions working today for some reason...so this will just cause brain matter to splatter all over my laptop screen.//

Its pretty easy. The scientist models/math/expectations don’t match what they see so BANG we invent dark matter or is it dark energy or both. We use to call this fudge factors.


17 posted on 10/13/2020 1:51:01 PM PDT by gbaker
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Dark matter comes out of black holes as a result of chicken moleh...


18 posted on 10/13/2020 2:33:34 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved

It turns out they forgot to take the lens cap off of their telescope.

19 posted on 10/13/2020 2:37:36 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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There is less to this than meets the eye.
2+2=Banana
And Kilroy was here


20 posted on 10/13/2020 2:37:55 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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