1. 11:51 16th Feb 2012

    Notes: 63

    Reblogged from likeaphysicist

    Tags: SpaceDark MatterTechnologyTechcomputer modellingCosmology

    image: Download

    Is The Vast Emptiness of Space Really Filled With Dark Matter? Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies. The new research concludes that galaxies have no definite “edges.” Instead galaxies have long outskirts of dark matter that extend to nearby galaxies and the intergalactic space is not empty but filled with dark matter. The surface mass density as a function of distance (in units of a hundred thousand light-years). The blue points are observational data, whereas the solid line is the result of a computer simulation. The contributions from the central galaxy (red line) and from nearby galaxies (dashed line) are also shown. Read More (via thenewenlightenmentage)

    Is The Vast Emptiness of Space Really Filled With Dark Matter?

    Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational lensing to reveal how dark matter is distributed around galaxies.

    The new research concludes that galaxies have no definite “edges.” Instead galaxies have long outskirts of dark matter that extend to nearby galaxies and the intergalactic space is not empty but filled with dark matter.

    Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space is filled with dark matter

    The surface mass density as a function of distance (in units of a hundred thousand light-years). The blue points are observational data, whereas the solid line is the result of a computer simulation. The contributions from the central galaxy (red line) and from nearby galaxies (dashed line) are also shown.

    Read More

    (via thenewenlightenmentage)

     
    1. stop-world-hunger reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    2. imsorryi reblogged this from themanifoldcuriosity
    3. lainshikari reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    4. bittersweetserendipity reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    5. matthewkemph reblogged this from sweeneytravis
    6. sweeneytravis reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    7. the11dimensions reblogged this from sincerelyscience
    8. themanifoldcuriosity reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    9. joshbyard reblogged this from likeaphysicist and added:
      Is The Vast Emptiness of Space Really Filled With Dark Matter?
    10. phyz reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    11. sheitan reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    12. danstowe reblogged this from likeaphysicist
    13. likeaphysicist reblogged this from sincerelyscience
    14. sincerelyscience reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    15. starkiller1701 reblogged this from sincerelyscience
    16. emocatfish reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    17. divineirony reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage and added:
      big deal, right?
    18. tenthdimension reblogged this from multiversebox
    19. daynearerdying reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    20. ekkoriver reblogged this from collatzconjecture
    21. elusivemusings reblogged this from thelandofxanth
    22. thelandofxanth reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    23. code-pi reblogged this from sincerelyscience
    24. collatzconjecture reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    25. theoryofavarice reblogged this from wigmund
    26. wigmund reblogged this from sincerelyscience
    27. blackxmod reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    28. contemplatingmadness reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage
    29. lonecenturion reblogged this from thenewenlightenmentage