Waspie_Dwarf Posted November 23, 2015 #1 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought.A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or "hairs." Dark matter is an invisible, mysterious substance that makes up about 27 percent of all matter and energy in the universe. The regular matter, which makes up everything we can see around us, is only 5 percent of the universe. The rest is dark energy, a strange phenomenon associated with the acceleration of our expanding universe. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted November 23, 2015 #2 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Anyone gotta mop? My brain exploded after reading this. Dark matter/dark energy are beginning to sound a lot like the force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenemet Posted November 24, 2015 #3 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Does my black cat count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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