http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135219.htm
Funny right? is dark matter visible now?A team led by Dr. Noah Brosch, Director of the Tel Aviv University-owned Wise Observatory, is the first in the world to uncover what they believe are visible traces of a "filament" of dark matter -- an entity on which galaxies meet, cluster and form.
Dr. Brosch, with his M.Sc. student Adi Zitrin and researchers from Cornell University, studied an area of the sky opposite the constellation Virgo, where 14 galaxies were forming in a line. Pundits have called the line a "Bridge to Nowhere" because it seems to start and end in unknown locations. Strangely, 13 of these galaxies were simultaneously giving birth to new stars.
OMG!! the filament attracts matter and squeezes (pinches) them to create new stars.The odds of this occurrence are very rare, leading the researchers to believe that the galaxies might somehow be forming on this elusive filament, made entirely from dark matter, which attracts regular matter that then turns into new stars.
That's a pretty good comparison, just as much chance in finding one of Gods follicles as it is dark matter.Dr. Brosch compares the work of an astronomer to "looking for hairs of the beard of the Creator."
Huh! it makes up a significant portion of the universe, but it may ONLY be a mere 15 million light years from us? I suppose that is convenient to keep it elusive so the research funds keep coming.This line of galaxies may be one such hair. Generally speaking, matter as we know it on earth makes up only a small percentage of our universe. The composition of most of the universe is unknown -- it's either dark matter (about one quarter of the universe) or dark energy (the other three-quarters). "Our studies show that you don't need to go to the edge of the universe to find dark matter. It may be only 15 million light years away, more or less in our backyard," says Dr. Brosch.
I'm such a cynic.