HOLY F-CKING SH-T. 90% of the Universe hiding in plain sight!

[Telarus]

[Note: before you ask, this has nothing to do with dark matter. See below!]


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/03/24/found-90-of-the-distant-universe/



Monkeys can be quite ingenious sometimes.

[NotPublished]

That is pretty cool!

Mass Effect is seeming more real 

[Dr. Paes]

Oh, so that's where I left that. You clever monkeys found it!
Science step 1: Fuck your assumptions about how things should work.

[Cain]

Well, admittedly, this makes a lot more sense than dark matter.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Bwhahahahaha, that is awesome! 

[LMNO]

Scientist 1:  "Holy crap!  I can't see any Lyman Alpha photons!  There aren't any galaxies out there!"

Scientist 2:  "Have you tried looking for H Alpha photons?"

Scientist 1:  "..."

Scientist 2:  " "

Scientist 1:  "Shut up.  It's not funny."

[Kai]

Apparently this doesn't remove dark matter from the picture.

But then I got that from Weird Things so it's probably wrong.

[Jasper]

There's no GALAXIES in it! 

FUCKING thing SUCKS!!

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Apparently this doesn't remove dark matter from the picture.

But then I got that from Weird Things so it's probably wrong.

Meh, its dark matter... even if it was in the picture we wouldn't see it

[Freeky]

"I ACCIDENTLY ALMOST THE WHOLE UNIVERS!"

"NOBODY PANIC, I FOUND THE UNIVERSE."

[Telarus]

The article I linked to clearly delineates this finding from 'dark matter'. We knew these galaxies masses were out there, but we didn't know why we couldn't see them. Dark matter is mass in galaxies that we could see and study that we didn't know what was comprising that mass.

Classic dark matter proof: Two visible colliding galaxies. Each have mass/momentum. Dark matter of each has similar momentum. When they collide the reg matter gets all tangled together. Dark matter keeps going in the original momentum vector, usually leading to two "plumes" of dark matter away from the collision site. These 'plumes' can bend light from stars behind them from our p.o.v, and thus have mass but no visible component that we can detect yet.

[Freeky]

I read the article, I just thought it was funny as hell.

It was an interesting read, too.

[LMNO]

Incidentally, why did you self censor the fucking title of this thread and shit?

[NotPublished]

Perhaps he's classical

[PeregrineBF]

Or perhaps he just hates the letter "U" and happened to miss the one in "Universe". "HOLY F-CKING SH-T. 90% of the -niverse hiding in plain sight!"