A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team
has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen.
Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures
criss-cross the night sky, each spanning an area that is eight times
larger than the full moon.
Re: Many people landed on Mars ... But that makes the hypothesis of dark matter theory laden.... Even something as simple as measuring a piece of wood requires a measuring stick and we -assume- that the stick is sufficiently rigid to make the measurements sensible. ... We cannot prove our rulers are rigid by using rulers. ... (sci.physics)
Re: Many people landed on Mars ... But that makes the hypothesis of dark matter theory laden.... Even something as simple as measuring a piece of wood requires a measuring stick and we -assume- that the stick is sufficiently rigid to make the measurements sensible. ...Bob Kolker... on galactic rotation, galactic orbits in clusters, gravitational ... (sci.physics)
Re: Hubble Bubble Trouble ... I already had the distance to M33 at 3 million light-years.... about as smart as looking for dark matter,... (sci.astro.amateur)
