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Dark Matter Filaments Bind Galaxies Together

July 12, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A slim bridge of dark matter – just a hint of a larger cosmic skeleton – has been found binding a pair of distant galaxies together. According to a press release from the journal Nature, scientists have traced a thread-like structure [...]

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What’s the Moon Made Of? Earth, Most Likely.

April 12, 2012

Recent research on lunar samples has shown that the Moon may be made of more Earth than green cheese — if by “green cheese” you mean the protoplanet impactor that was instrumental in its creation. Remove this ad

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Message in a Wobble: Black Holes Send Memos in Light

February 13, 2011

Imagine a spinning black hole so colossal and so powerful that it kicks photons, the basic units of light, and sends them careening thousands of light years through space. Some of the photons make it to Earth. Scientists are announcing in the journal Nature Physics today that those well-traveled photons still carry the signature of [...]

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