Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Dark matter underpinnings of cosmic web found

Dark matter underpinnings of cosmic web found: The massive filament's gravity focuses the light travelling towards Earth from more distant background galaxies. The team used this light to calculate the filament's mass and shape. X-rays from the hot gas of normal matter in the vicinity showed that this matter lined up with the filament but made up only about 10 per cent of its mass. The rest must be dark matter...

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