Milky Way has half the amount of dark matter as previously thought, new measurements re... - 0 views
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Isaiah-Thomas C on 13 Oct 14isn't dark matter a theory
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Australian astronomers used a method developed almost 100 years ago to discover that the weight of dark matter in our own galaxy is 800,000,000,000 (or 8 x 1011) times the mass of the Sun.
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Stars, dust, you and me, all the things that we see, only make up about 4 per cent of the entire Universe," he said.
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This is an artist's impression of the Milky Way and its dark matter halo (shown in blue, but in reality invisible).
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Milky Way has half the amount of dark matter as previously thought, new measurements reveal
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A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought. Australian astronomers used a method developed almost 100 years ago to discover that the weight of dark matter in our own galaxy is 800,000,000,000 times the mass of the Sun. They probed the edge of the Milky Way, looking closely, for the first time, at the fringes of the galaxy about 5 million billion kilometres from Earth.
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What happens if this happens? dark matter, really invisible? i had no idea that the universe is really dark. cool, but what is this dark matter they are talking about? is this the way that our galaxy ends? i need to do more studying.
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Dr Kafle, who is originally from Nepal, was able to measure the mass of the dark matter in the Milky Way by studying the speed of stars throughout the galaxy, including the edges, which had never been studied to this detail before. He used a robust technique developed by British astronomer James Jeans in 1915 -- decades before the discovery of dark matter. Dr Kafle's measurement helps to solve a mystery that has been haunting theorists for almost two decades. "The current idea of galaxy formation and evolution, called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter theory, predicts that there should be a handful of big satellite galaxies around the Milky Way that are visible with the naked eye, but we don't see that," Dr Kafle said. "When you use our measurement of the mass of the dark matter the theory predicts that there should only be three satellite galaxies out there, which is exactly what we see; the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy." University of Sydney astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis, who was also involved in the research, said the missing satellite problem had been "a thorn in the cosmological side for almost 15 years." "Dr Kafle's work has shown that it might not be as bad as everyone thought, although there are still problems to overcome," he said. The study also presented a holistic model of the Milky Way, which allowed the scientists to measure several interesting things such as the speed required to leave the galaxy. "Be prepared to hit 550 kilometres per second if you want to escape the gravitational clutches of our galaxy," Dr Kafle said. "A rocket launched from Earth needs just 11 kilometres per second to leave its surface, which is already about 300 times faster than the maximum Australian speed limit in a car!"
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the story of all this is very interesting. that all matter in the universe can still be explored by camera. later on, humans and machines that can travel far. space and time is very interesting.
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is dark matter and the rest is dark energy."
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A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way
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Dr Kafle, who is originally from Nepal, was able to measure the mass of the dark matter in the Milky Way by studying the speed of stars throughout the galaxy, including the edges, which had never been studied to this detail before. He used a robust technique developed by British astronomer James Jeans in 1915 -- decades before the discovery of dark matter. Dr Kafle's measurement helps to solve a mystery that has been haunting theorists for almost two decades. "The current idea of galaxy formation and evolution, called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter theory, predicts that there should be a handful of big satellite galaxies around the Milky Way that are visible with the naked eye, but we don't see that," Dr Kafle said. "When you use our measurement of the mass of the dark matter the theory predicts that there should only be three satellite galaxies out there, which is exactly what we see; the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy." University of Sydney astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis, who was also involved in the research, said the missing satellite problem had been "a thorn in the cosmological side for almost 15 years." "Dr Kafle's work has shown that it might not be as bad as everyone thought, although there are still problems to overcome," he said. The study also presented a holistic model of the Milky Way, which allowed the scientists to measure several interesting things such as the speed required to leave the galaxy. "Be prepared to hit 550 kilometres per second if you want to escape the gravitational clutches of our galaxy," Dr Kafle said. "A rocket launched from Earth needs just 11 kilometres per second to leave its surface, which is already about 300 times faster than the maximum Australian speed limit in a car!"
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