This is nothing but desperate speculation by DM believers. What would cause dark matter, if it existed at all, to form filaments? Sure, they have computer simulations that suggest this, but the why is never really explained. Those simulations just have lots of knobs to make them behave however they want ... no real physics involved ... and, in fact, the real physics of plasma is ignored (not part of them).Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks—and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough.
“Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions,” explained Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University, and the lead author of a new paper slated to appear in The Astrophysical Journal that outlines the findings. “Galaxies that look like long, thin breadsticks seem to be very common in the early universe, which is surprising, since they are uncommon among galaxies in the present-day universe.”
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Caption: Images of what researchers believe are elongated, ellipsoid (i.e. breadstick-shaped) galaxies, captured with the James Webb Space Telescope. The word “believe” reflects the fact that some of the galaxies may be disk (i.e pizza pie) shaped galaxies seen from the side. Credit: Viraj Pandya et al.
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One question, of course, is why early galaxies tended to be so flattened and elongated. One hypothesis, Pandya explained, is that the early universe may have been filled with filaments of dark matter that formed a kind of “skeletal background,” or “cosmic highway,” that ushered gas and stars along it.
These filaments still exist, but they have grown much more diffuse as the universe has expanded, so they may be less likely to promote the formation of breadstick-shaped galaxies.
Moreover, they’ve already confirmed that these monstrous “cosmic filaments” are ROTATING about the filaments' axes (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dar ... ects-space). What characteristic of dark matter would cause that? Again, never answered. In fact, that question is buried under the rug.
But, in contrast, filaments of ordinary plasma would have formed very early since all it would taken is the presence of electric current ... which we know exists out there. And the same physics would cause these galaxy and cluster sized filaments to rotate about their axes. No magic gnome need. It's a fact confirmed in the lab and in computer models that account for real physics.
Over time I've come to view mainstream astrophysicists with total distain. They truly are the blind men examining the leg of an elephant and calling it a tree. They haven't a clue what they are looking at, folks. They are just the priests of a religion that has made them all relatively wealthy living off the taxpaying public. Hence they continue to promote the religion rather than find the truth. If you ask me, it's time to cut off their taxpayer funding and the taxpayer funding of SCORES of multibillion dollar toys. Just saying ...
