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The more scientists study dark matter, the lesser they know and they are not particularly optimistic about their results.
After completing this study, we know less about dark matter than we did before," said Matt Walker, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
A mysterious and still unknown substance is totally invisible in the Universe and reveals
its presence only through its gravitational pull.
It does not emit any light, but it affects the ordinary matter such as stars, gas, neutrinos and various heavy elements
( 5% of the present composition of the Universe).
For example, it's crucial for stars, which would fly off in all directions - without dark matter.
Otherwise, the nature of dark matter is a mystery. No one knows what it consists of and no one has seen it, because it
doesn't interact with the matter scientists know about.
The composition of the known Universe: shown are the contributions from Dark Energy, Dark Matter and ordinary matter made of Standard Model particles. Photo Credits: MPIK
A working assumption is that dark matter consists of "cold" (i.e. slow-moving) exotic particles clump together gravitationally.
Over time these dark matter clumps grow and attract normal matter, forming the galaxies we see today.
Cosmologists used powerful computers to simulate this process and the subject were two dwarf galaxies.
They are ideal objects to study dark matter, since it represents 99% of their composition.
Computer modeling of this phenomenon indicates that dark matter should be densely packed in the centers of galaxies.
But it's not!
The simulations do not match performed measurements of two dwarf galaxies showing that the galaxies contain a smooth distribution of dark
matter and are less dense than they should be - if they held cold dark matter.
A mysterious and still unknown substance is totally invisible in the Universe - dark matter.
"Our measurements contradict a basic prediction about the structure of cold dark matter in dwarf galaxies. Unless or until theorists
can modify that prediction, cold dark matter is inconsistent with our observational data," Walker stated.
It means that either normal matter affects dark matter more than scientists expected, or dark matter is not "cold."
The researchers analyzed the dark matter distribution in: the Fornax and Sculptor dwarf galaxies, which contain one million
to 10 million stars and analyzed speeds and chemical compositions of 1500 to 2500 stars.
It seems that the commonly accepted cosmological model may be wrong and should be revisited.
In other words, secret dark matter forces scientists to accept the "Paradigm Shift".
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MessageToEagle.com -
The more scientists study dark matter, the lesser they know and they are not particularly optimistic about their results.
A team of astrophysicists from Germany, France and Italy have discovered in the constellation Leo is an old star.
The star's existence raised at once many questions for scientists.
The object is definitely not as its "contemporaries" that appeared immediately after the Big Bang event.
Have you ever wondered what the Universe will look like for a future alien astronomer?
NGC 5907 is sometimes called the "Splinter" or Knife Edge Galaxy because of its unusual appearance.
It is a spiral galaxy lying in the Dragon constellation,
about 40 million light-years from Earth that could have been formed through a gigantic collision of galaxies, 8 to 9 billion years ago.
The Milky Way is hard to map because we are sitting on the edge of the galaxy looking through it.
However, we know that spiral galaxies like the Milky Way have magnetic fields that follow a particular pattern so we were able
use polarised light to map the magnetic fields...
The formation of stellar-mass black holes through the collapse of massive stars is well accepted. However,
it is not yet completely clear how the supermassive objects are formed.
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