Oh oh … more trouble for DM gnomists?

[BeAChooser]

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-stars-slo ... alaxy.html

By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in the galactic disk are traveling more slowly than expected compared to stars that are closer to the galaxy's center.

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The scientists plotted each star's velocity against its distance to generate a rotation curve—a standard graph in astronomy that represents how fast matter rotates at a given distance from the center of a galaxy. … snip …

"What we were really surprised to see was that this curve remained flat, flat, flat out to a certain distance, and then it started tanking," says Lina Necib, assistant professor of physics at MIT. … snip …

The team translated the new rotation curve into a distribution of dark matter that could explain the outer stars' slow-down, and found the resulting map produced a lighter galactic core than expected. That is, the center of the Milky Way may be less dense, with less dark matter, than scientists have thought.

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"This result is in tension with other measurements," Necib says.

Tension is another way of saying it causes problems they’re having trouble explaining.

[Arcmode]

'Tension' allows them to turn anomolous observations into breakthrough, unexpected discoveries. It's a great scam, because if your starting assumptions are wrong, you never really know what to expect, so you get a never ending stream of interesting findings to feed the public. EU would actually make science less interesting for normies because it's actually predictive, and reporting would not be constant surprises. The way it is, they get to claim they are finding these amazing phenomena all the time, that everyone scrambles to incorporate into the existing model so they can get a quote in some dumb magazine or something. It creates the illusion of progress, whereas a real science would proceed fairly steadily and unremarkably, as the next level opens up organically to the perceiver, with each level making sense of the rest, and every observation finding it's place. That's been my experience so far, as long as I'm ruthless in my apophathy.