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    Japanese scientists used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to conduct a computer simulation revealing how dark matter may be distributed around galaxies and into interstellar space. Dark matter, which accounts for around 83% of all matter in the universe, is inferred to exist based on its gravitational effects but has not been directly observed. The simulation found that dark matter exists not just within galaxies but also at their edges and stretching into space between galaxies.

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    Japanese scientists used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to conduct a computer simulation revealing how dark matter may be distributed around galaxies and into interstellar space. Dark matter, which accounts for around 83% of all matter in the universe, is inferred to exist based on its gravitational effects but has not been directly observed. The simulation found that dark matter exists not just within galaxies but also at their edges and stretching into space between galaxies.

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    Japanese scientists used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to conduct a computer simulation revealing how dark matter may be distributed around galaxies and into interstellar space. Dark matter, which accounts for around 83% of all matter in the universe, is inferred to exist based on its gravitational effects but has not been directly observed. The simulation found that dark matter exists not just within galaxies but also at their edges and stretching into space between galaxies.

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    Dark Matter Found Lurking at Edges of Galaxies : Discovery News

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    Dark Matter Found Lurking at Edges of Galaxies


    By Jennifer Ouellette | Mon Feb 13, 2012 06:31 PM ET

    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the gift that keeps on giving. This ambitious project to
    map the night sky has been collecting data since 2000 and making it available to
    researchers all over the world.
    Now, Japanese scientists have used the data on 24 million galaxies to conduct a new
    computer simulation revealing how the mysterious dark matter might be distributed
    around those galaxies -- even stretching into interstellar space.
    ANALYSIS: Milky Way
    Microwave Mystery

    Humming

    with

    First, a bit of background to this ongoing story.


    Dark matter likely makes up around 83 percent
    of all matter in the universe. But scientists thus
    far have not been able to observe it directly,
    because it interacts so weakly with ordinary
    matter; we only infer its existence from
    detecting their gravitational fields.

    WATCH VIDEO: DARK ENERGY

    http://news.discovery.com/space/found-missing-dark-matter-120213.html?print=true

    13/02/2012

    Dark Matter Found Lurking at Edges of Galaxies : Discovery News

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    A physicist named Fritz Zwicky first noticed this phenomenon in 1933 when he
    concluded that galaxies in the Coma cluster were moving so quickly that they should be
    able to escape from the cluster if visible mass was the only thing contributing to the
    cluster's gravitational pull. Since the cluster hadn't flown apart, he proposed the
    existence of "dark matter" to account for the observational data.
    In the 1960s, Vera Rubin and Kent Ford confirmed Zwicky's theory when their spectral
    analysis revealed that the outer stars in selected spiral galaxies were orbiting just as
    quickly as those at the center.
    The visible matter wasn't sufficient to account for this; the spiral galaxy should be flying
    apart. Clearly, there had to be some kind of hidden "dark" mass adding to the galaxy's
    gravitational influence.
    NEWS: Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped
    Physicists have been trying to directly observe dark matter ever since. We can,
    however, indirectly observe dark matter through gravitational lensing. That extra mass
    exerts a gravitational force on the space-time surrounding it. As light travels from distant
    galaxies, it will be bent around gravitational distortions in space-time -- much like the
    paths of marbles rolling across a bent sheet of plastic -- being caused by the dense
    regions of dark matter.

    But gravitational lensing is a small effect, and difficult to detect for individual galaxies.
    That's why the SDSS data is so important: now scientists have images of millions of
    galaxies at their disposal. In 2010, an international research group used that data to
    determine the distribution of projected matter density from the center of galaxies out to
    a hundred million light years.
    Just last month, an international team of astronomers announced that they had
    analyzed light from 10 million galaxies in four different regions of the sky and built the
    largest dark matter map created to date: an intricate cosmic web of dark matter and
    galaxies one billion light-years across.
    ANALYSIS: Dark Matter Mystery Unraveled by Dwarf Galaxies?
    Even NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has a mission dedicated to mapping dark
    matter, specifically within galaxy clusters. It's called the Cluster Lensing And Supernova
    survey with Hubble (CLASH), and so far it has measured six of 25 target galaxy
    clusters.

    http://news.discovery.com/space/found-missing-dark-matter-120213.html?print=true

    13/02/2012

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