the-star-stuff: Missing dark matter located Researchers discover that intergalactic space is filled with the unseen matter. By University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan — Published: February 14, 2012 Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies.The new research concludes that galaxies have no definite “edges.” Instead, galaxies have long outskirts of dark matter that extend to nearby galaxies, and intergalactic space is not empty but filled with dark matter.It is well-known that there is a large amount of unseen matter called “dark matter” in the universe. It constitutes about 22 percent of the present-day universe while ordinary matter constitutes of only 4.5 percent. An important question still remains: Where is most of the dark matter in the universe? [Continue Reading…]
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Missing dark matter located

Researchers discover that intergalactic space is filled with the unseen matter. By University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan — Published: February 14, 2012
Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies.

The new research concludes that galaxies have no definite “edges.” Instead, galaxies have long outskirts of dark matter that extend to nearby galaxies, and intergalactic space is not empty but filled with dark matter.

It is well-known that there is a large amount of unseen matter called “dark matter” in the universe. It constitutes about 22 percent of the present-day universe while ordinary matter constitutes of only 4.5 percent. An important question still remains: Where is most of the dark matter in the universe? [Continue Reading…]

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