Dark Matter Visualized

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  1. Walter L. Wagner Cosmic Truth Seeker Valued Senior Member

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    Dark matter filaments bridge the space between galaxies in this false color map. The locations of bright galaxies are shown by the white regions and the presence of a dark matter filament bridging the galaxies is shown in red.
    Credit: S. Epps/M. Hudson/University of Waterloo
    For decades, scientists have tracked hints of a thread-like structure that ties together galaxies across the universe. Theories, computer models, and indirect observations have indicated that there is a cosmic web of dark matter that connects galaxies and constitutes the large-scale structure of the cosmos. But while the filaments that make up this web are massive, dark matter is incredibly difficult to observe.

    Now, researchers have produced what they say is the first composite image of a dark matter filament that connects galaxies together.

    "This image moves us beyond predictions to something we can see and measure," said Mike Hudson, a professor of astronomy at the University of Waterloo in Canada, co-author of a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
     
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  3. timojin Valued Senior Member

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    I posted that yesterday , in dark matter, but it is ok people did not respond so perhaps some will do here.
     
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