More_Badass
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What does a dark matter organism look like?
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Dark matter Galaxy discovered
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SuperEpicMan
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So if dark matter doesn't affect light and appears invisible, maybe thats why other players in No Man's Sky can't see me.
NCR Redslayer
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A space dragon.
Nope. Its just super empty and shouldn't be there.
You see on huge scales the universe should be basically the same in all directions. But it isnt. Thats not even counting dark flow.
Wasn't dark flow disproved ? Or at least reclassified etc
Sounds like the start of a sci-fi horror novel.
"Man's hunger to touch the stars has just lead to its downfall...
A group of young scientists make an unbelievable discovery; a galaxy made up almost entirely of black matter. And it has noticed. It has been in a lucid sleep, wrapped up in dark waste it has left behind. And they have done enough for it to turn an eye towards us. It has lived for 25 galactic years, and it hungers. It hungers to not be alone. It hungers for friendship and companionship. Like always this hunger will lead it to consume. We will discover why that section of the galaxy has gone dark.
The young scientists will stand face to face with our end. What they accidentally started no one will be able to stop."
Someone could write a good story based around this.
"Man's hunger to touch the stars has just lead to its downfall...
A group of young scientists make an unbelievable discovery; a galaxy made up almost entirely of black matter. And it has noticed. It has been in a lucid sleep, wrapped up in dark waste it has left behind. And they have done enough for it to turn an eye towards us. It has lived for 25 galactic years, and it hungers. It hungers to not be alone. It hungers for friendship and companionship. Like always this hunger will lead it to consume. We will discover why that section of the galaxy has gone dark.
The young scientists will stand face to face with our end. What they accidentally started no one will be able to stop."
Someone could write a good story based around this.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy are called as such, iirc, because they do not exert or otherwise interact with the electromagnetic spectrum. It's generally held that the strong and electromagnetic forces are absent; only the weak force and gravity occur.
tearsintherain
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Its always humbling to think that everything we see and know makes up virtually nothing of the actual universe
On the other hand, I also sometimes wonder if we really are missing out on something simple and critical, like we are making more and more convoluted explanations why most of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see or interact with but only can infer from how it affects everything else.
On the other hand, I also sometimes wonder if we really are missing out on something simple and critical, like we are making more and more convoluted explanations why most of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see or interact with but only can infer from how it affects everything else.
DerangedHermit
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Slayer-33
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Holy shit lol...
Its always humbling to think that everything we see and know makes up virtually nothing of the actual universe
On the other hand, I also sometimes wonder if we really are missing out on something simple and critical, like we are making more and more convoluted explanations why most of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see or interact with but only can infer from how it affects everything else.
Yeah went to a talk at the local space center where he talked about this. It's crazy.
Its always humbling to think that everything we see and know makes up virtually nothing of the actual universe
On the other hand, I also sometimes wonder if we really are missing out on something simple and critical, like we are making more and more convoluted explanations why most of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see or interact with but only can infer from how it affects everything else.
most of the simple stuff has been ruled out. also we already know of a sort of dark matter: neutrinos, so it's not that out there.
Don't know if it's been answered yet, but they largely determine mass based on the velocity of stars they observe:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/08/exciting-new-discovery-milky-way-sized-blob-galaxy-made-entirely-of-dark-matter-we-have-no-idea-who-.html#more
madstarr12
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Oh boy, sounds wonderful.
Lucky Seven
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Wait, I'm not ready to meet my doppelganger yet. He's gonna laugh at me.
Insane Metal
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I see what you did there.
So dark matter bends light via gravity but does not absorb, reflect, or...refract. Hm. A bit difficult to wrap my head around gravitational bending but not refraction. So it's literally invisible save for gravitational effects and this extends to light. I'm usually pretty good with getting stuff but this will require some mulling over.
Thanks for the link.
Myths
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Yeah seriously, but very little can I digest of what's discovered 😫
Obliterator
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So would this Galaxy essentially be invisible? Sorry I'm not up to date on the latest Dark Matter stuff, but most of what I've read is we essentially don't have any clue on what it actually is
It's faint, but not invisible. After all, it's 300 million LY away and we can take pictures of it. It's just that it's really sparsely populated for its mass and so we have to look extra hard for it. If that galaxy had the proportional amount of stars in it that other galaxies (like our own) do for its mass, we probably would have discovered it decades ago.
Lightning_Roller
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Then why the hell did you stop? That post alone had me hooked, I wanna read more!!!
OT: this is pretty nuts. Man I love space!!
Its always humbling to think that everything we see and know makes up virtually nothing of the actual universe
On the other hand, I also sometimes wonder if we really are missing out on something simple and critical, like we are making more and more convoluted explanations why most of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see or interact with but only can infer from how it affects everything else.
The cool thing about this pie chart (if you make a couple of baseless but reasonable assumptions) is that it makes the Fermi paradox collapse a little and makes us citizens of the rare "light universe"
NobleGundam
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99.99 of this galaxy is made up of dark matter...
Which space itself is believed to be made up of dark matter. In other words, it's almost an empty shell of a galaxy with a 1% of a star(s) possibly currently existing.
Which space itself is believed to be made up of dark matter. In other words, it's almost an empty shell of a galaxy with a 1% of a star(s) possibly currently existing.
to counter the madness thats happening everywhere on the planet.
DevilDog
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I've studied this in my university and I'm still having troubles comprehending it.
But this means that these galaxies can exist closer to us right?
I can hear the sci-fi writers tears of joy. Can't wait
But this means that these galaxies can exist closer to us right?
I can hear the sci-fi writers tears of joy. Can't wait
At the end of ME1: The reapers are real, and I'm not going to do anything to stop them in the next 2 years.
The ending of ME2 was a disaster. That whole story was a disaster.
3 had a better one at least. Whatever if could salvage from 2's wreckage.
The ending of ME2 was a disaster. That whole story was a disaster.
3 had a better one at least. Whatever if could salvage from 2's wreckage.
Crayon
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I was just wondering what dark matter gelato would taste like.
Not until we activate the closest mass relay.
Alebrije
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opticalmace
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I'm not sure if I follow what you're saying, but you might be mixing up dark matter and dark energy?
sono
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The creatures there: are from the other side.
you can't see the eyes of the demon, until him come callin'.
Crayon
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It would be something that has mass but does not interact otherwise. So, it has gravity but your hand would swipe right thru it. Or light would go right thru it so you couldn't see it either.
Silent Chief
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We've already calculated the ratio of dark matter to known matter based on the speed at which the universe expends, so this particular observation changes very little.
Calculating the mass of far away galaxies is pretty tricky.
What makes dark matter evident is usually that several stars orbiting around a cluster move at the same speed whereas the ones closer to the center of mass should move faster, like Mercury moves faster than Pluto. This means that what ever dark matter is, it's distributed within that cluster, like Mercury would move slower if it was orbiting within the sun.
Calculating the mass of far away galaxies is pretty tricky.
What makes dark matter evident is usually that several stars orbiting around a cluster move at the same speed whereas the ones closer to the center of mass should move faster, like Mercury moves faster than Pluto. This means that what ever dark matter is, it's distributed within that cluster, like Mercury would move slower if it was orbiting within the sun.
Damerman
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Space doesn't have a memory
SlipperyFishes
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Please don't fall into their trap.
Version 3.0
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The part of spacetime that's bent is moving along with the matter doing the bending. But fun idea.
It's only boring to us, odds are we're in the crazy part
Edit: Not even odds, it's confirmed :lol.
infinitys_7th
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Don't you mean weak force and emf interaction are absent? I thought they were unified now.
Theoretically, could dark matter have its own force which "light" matter does not interact with? If there is, I could see intelligence potentially developing in the "dark" system.
I can't see life, as an information storage medium, evolving just with gravity (mass-based attraction) and strong force (intranuclear attraction). Most natural information storage and retrieval (DNA, protein folding, neurology) is driven by electromagnetism in one form or another.
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