[NormsRevenge]

This NASA handout image received in 2007 shows dark matter ring in a galaxy center. An international team of astronomers peering into the deep Universe said on Thursday they had mapped the biggest-ever structure of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter. (AFP/NASA-HO/File)

[John W]

This should be good.

[Southack]

There’s no such thing as “dark matter.”

It’s a mathematical construct, nothing more.

[The_Republican]

Biggest Dark Matter Structure ever? Hildabeast visible from space?

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Well, something rather interesting is going on. We just don't know what it is and can't see it, so I guess "dark matter" is as good a term as any for now.

[wastedyears]

Space ping

[Pylon]

Anyone else besides me read the title as Cosmetologists first and get confused?

[rickomatic]

they had mapped the biggest-ever structure of the enigmatic substance known as dark matter.

Oh...sorry...I thought you said cosmatologist...

[unspun]

OK, it's bigger than this.

http://www.sapere.it/tca/MainApp?srvc=dcmnt&url=/tc/storia/percorsi/Islam/LemmIslam.html

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[jeddavis]

There’s no such thing as dark matter. Dark matter is a necessary add-on to the wrong idea that gravity and not electromag forces mainly bind the cosmos together.

[GregoryFul]

So how do they know it is not just bent space?

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Bump for later

[PzLdr]

Coruscant?

[aposiopetic]

Can there be property rights in dark matter?

[Kickass Conservative]

Oh, so this isn’t an Obama thread.

[G Larry]

Why isn’t this a pattern of light sources?

If I photograph a hand full of dirt thrown in the air, do I call the picture a pattern of the surrounding air?

[Ignatz]

"Ok, see that stuff right there?"

"No."

"Right there! That's it...that's the stuff! Dark M-A-T-T-E-R!"

"I don' see nuthin'."

"Right! That's how we knows it's there!"

"Hmm...I should see somethin' shouldn' I?"

No, no, no! It's D-A-R-K Matter! Now be careful not to stumble over it in the light..."

[Cvengr]

Just an interesting aside,... The reports of the 10 plagues in Exodus 10:21-29 describe a plague of darkness.

Some commentators have described the plague to not merely be an eclipse of the sun, but with the description of light emanating from the homes of the Israelites, while an inky dark fog would blot out even candlelight from the homes of the Egyptians. It additionally describes the darkness as a darkness which may be felt.

[RightWhale]

with present technology, it cannot be seen directly

Nothing can be seen directly.

[avg_freeper]

I’ve seen bigger.