Astronomers Spot Two Massive Galaxies Surrounded by a Halo of Dark Matter at the Dawn of Time

www.popularmechanics.com ^ | 12/06/2017 | By John Wenz

[Red Badger]

No it didn’t...............

[Windflier]

Electric Universe ping.

[Red Badger]

Yes.

His name is Gabriel...................

[exit82]

I love the part of the long scientific equations that has brackets with the words “Then a miracle happens” in between.

[Rebelbase]

“They ARE being sucked into a black hole! In the center of the galaxy”

A galactic tax to stop that would give it’s inhabitants peace of mind.

[Enchante]

[Red Badger]

That would just create another Black hole......................

[Conan the Librarian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

[Windflier]

No it didn’t...

Gravity actually is explained in the video I linked, but unfortunately it's only briefly shown on a slide during the presentation.

If you're up for it, here is a video presentation that goes into great depth, though it's considerably longer (but fascinating):

Wal Thornhill - The Long Path To Understanding Gravity

[Windflier]

I love the part of the long scientific equations that has brackets with the words “Then a miracle happens” in between.

That is one of my all time favorite cartoons. It really portrays the state of modern cosmology in one snapshot.

[exit82]

Exact cartoon I was thinking of——thanks.

[Swordmaker]

Orthodox cosmologists again claiming to see what they don’t and can’t see at the edge of the observable Universe to try and explain what they can’t explain without invoking magical unseen fudge factors to make their theories work! —Electric Universe PING!

If you want on or off the Electric Universe Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Thanks for the heads up, Windflyer. Pinged.

[Seruzawa]

The fevered dreams of materialists.

[TigersEye]

I’m glad you asked that it confuses me too.

I would have asked it more simply;

How can the mass that composes our galaxy, which began traveling from the same point as all other mass in the universe, and which does not travel anywhere close to the speed of light, be ahead of the light that originated in those galaxies approximately 13 billion years ago?

[Pikachu_Dad]

There is a massive black hole at the center of every galaxy!

[Lurker]

“The room you’re sitting in could be filled with them but there is no way to detect them.“

Then they don’t exist.

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[RegulatorCountry]

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Then they don’t exist."

To you no, but they can (theoretically) have gravitational effects on whole galaxy clusters. A far greater effect than things you do consider to exist. Dark matter is estimated to outweigh normal matter by about 5 or 6 to 1. But they don't clump like normal matter, so it takes an astronomically huge volume of them to weigh any significant amount (still assuming we're talking about ghost particles).

Space is mostly empty space, our planet being a tiny, dense clump of matter surrounded by millions of miles of almost nothing. If those millions of miles contain just a tiny bit of dark matter per cubic centimeter, however, it adds up. Next apply that to the trillions of miles across interstellar space. It all adds up to more dark matter than normal matter, theoretically. Observationally, we know something out there, with mass, must exist in order to have the gravitational pull that we see.

[Lurker]

“Dark matter is estimated to outweigh normal matter by about 5 or 6 to 1.“

Then I should run over tons of it with my lawnmower. But, I don’t.

“But they don’t clump like normal matter,”

So it exerts gravitational force on “ordinary”matter but isn’t affected by its own gravitational force. Do I have that right?

“Observationally, we know something out there, with mass, must exist in order to have the gravitational pull that we see.”

Or your premise is wrong.

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