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Ok, it seems like a lot of people here think dark matter is a “thing” but it’s not. Dark matter is simply unaccounted for mass in the universe. When we discover
by chewbacha 9y ago
Ok, it seems like a lot of people here think dark matter is a “thing” but it’s not. Dark matter is simply unaccounted for mass in the universe. When we discover mass that we didn’t know about before, the amount of “dark” matter decreases. The word “dark” here merely means “known unknown” because we observe the effect but not the cause. This discovery has unveiled some of the dark matter as baryon particles in a plasma. So some of that dark matter is now known.
- mikebridgman 9y agoIf you read vanderZwan's analysis in another comment thread, it seems this discovery did not involve dark matter. It was well below 50%, and the baryon particles were always predicted to be there, they were just finally observed directly.
- BeetleB 9y ago>This discovery has unveiled some of the dark matter as baryon particles in a plasma. So some of that dark matter is now known. The article clearly points out that this is not the case. The amount of dark matter is still the same. >Dark matter is simply unaccounted for mass in the universe. The article clearly points out that this is not the case.
- chewbacha 9y agoYou are correct, i misread one of the first paragraphs.