[AntiGuv]

shady ping!

[facedown]

A most significant discovery.

[Wneighbor]

Dark matter, dark energy - stay away from the dark side!

[Pride in the USA]

Paging Art Bell . . .

[Grut]

I still think the dark matter is 'fudge'. Were there any theories that called for it before cosmologists found out there wasn't enough 'regular' matter to make their then-current theories go?

[steveo]

So if you were on a planet in this dark galaxy, would it suck your tan off of you?

[bill1952]

Duplicate post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1349621/posts?page=32#32

My reply on that thread was that they had discovered an invisible galaxy (right!) but couldn't invent calorie free cheesecake? Wassup?

[GreenHornet]

Astronomers have discovered an invisible galaxy that could be the first of many that will help unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries. The object appears to be made mostly of "dark matter," material of an unknown nature that can't be seen.

Are they sure? Maybe they just forgot to take the lens cap off of their telescope.

[Fledermaus]

WOW! They found Hillary's brain!!

[ChadGore]

Dark Matter . . pffft yea right.
I'll believe it when I see it.

[js1138]

If it's not recorded in the Jedi library catalog, it doesn't exist.

[KillTime]

Interesting, but don't understand why they call it a galaxy. A galaxy is made up of stars, but they said this dark matter galaxy object has no stars...so why call it a galaxy then?

[Reaganesque]

Interesting discovery. And all I can think of is Doug and Bob MacKenzie's comments about the dark side.

[Ichneumon]

*Very* cool...

This reminds me of my younger days, when black holes were still a fascinating theoretical construct, and not known to necessarily actually exist. Then confirmations of actual black holes in various parts of the universe began to flood in, and it was so exciting to realize that such bizarre, wild things were actually *real*.

[RightOnline]

"Similar objects could be very common or very rare, said Robert Minchin of Cardiff University in the UK."

Gee. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Tanniker Smith]

I love the picture of the invisible galaxy. I have to print that out and show people. Nope, you can't see it. How do I know it's there? Well, look at the ring in the picture. The One Ring, right there. The galaxy is wearing the Ring and now it's invisible.

TS
A most precious find

[mikrofon]

"I see dark matter..."

[woofie]

Darkmatter, gravity,gas,all the stuff in this article

[doc30]

I wonder if this could be related to brane theory - the idea that matter and light are trapped inside our 3 dimensional space, but gravity has a multidimensional aspect that allows it to leak from one universe to an adjacent universe. Perhaps this accumulation of hydrogen is around a normal galaxy, but in a nearby brane universe? That would be an interesting explaination for dark matter without having to create an exotic material.

[aruanan]

Theorists have long said most of the universe is made of dark matter. Its presence is required to explain the extra gravitational force that is observed to hold regular galaxies together and that also binds large clusters of galaxies.

An example of a secondary hypothesis being invoked to rescue the primary hypothesis from its own defects.