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Giant dark matter bridge between galaxy clusters discovered

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A giant string of invisible dark matter has been discovered across the universe between a pair of galaxy clusters.
The filament forms a bridge between two huge clusters called Abell 222 and Abell 223, which lie 2.7 billion light-years away. The universe is thought to be filled with such strings of dark matter, a mysterious substance that cannot be seen, only sensed through its gravitational pull.
Scientists have made previous attempts to find dark matter filaments, which are predicted by theories that suggest galaxy clusters form at the intersections of filaments. Dark matter is thought to make up 83 percent of all matter in the universe.
"This is the first time [a dark matter filament] has been convincingly detected from its gravitational lensing effect," said astronomer Jörg Dietrich of the University Observatory Munich, in Germany. "It's a resounding confirmation of the standard theory of structure formation of the universe. And it's a confirmation people didn't think was possible at this point."
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Yesterday Higgs Boson, today Dark Matter.... tomorrow the G Spot.
 
Ah, I remember when Morgan Freeman was a young boy sitting on his porch, looking into the sky and pondering the existential mysteries of the substance that supposedly binds all matter together; preventing the very laws of gravity and momentum to tear it apart. This discovery just makes the universe make that much more sense.

This was, indeed, a cool finding.
 
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Trekker4747 said:
Ah, I remember when Morgan Freeman was a young boy sitting on his porch, looking into the sky and ponder the existential mysteries of the substance that supposedly binds all matter together, preventing the very laws of gravity and momentum to tear it apart. This discovery just make the universe make that much more sense.

This was, indeed, a cool finding.
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:guffaw::techman: (This is also for your avatar)
 
It's useful if you have a standard model.

Or a non-standard model, for that matter.
 
It's amazing how XKCD always provides spot on comics.

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http://xkcd.com/685/
 
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