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Zerush@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml · 17 days ago

“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

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“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

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Zerush@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml · 17 days ago
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Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the Universe’s ‘missing’ matter, addressing a decades-long mystery.
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    …satellite galaxies != galaxy clusters; andromedia is 2.5 million light-years distant and the cluster in this study is about ten times that size, 23 million light-years across…

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      Well, there go my vacation plans.

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