2007年5月18日星期五

哈勃新照片:暗物质环 Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter

Ring of Dark Matter
哈勃太空望远镜又拍到好东西了,暗物质环。具体情况请见官网
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. The ring's discovery is among the strongest evidence yet that dark matter exists. Astronomers have long suspected the existence of the invisible substance as the source of additional gravity that holds together galaxy clusters. Such clusters would fly apart if they relied only on the gravity from their visible stars. Although astronomers don't know what dark matter is made of, they hypothesize that it is a type of elementary particle that pervades the universe. Read more here.

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