this is where the star wars were happening
Hubble telescope discovers rare galaxy that is 99% dark matter
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to astronomy@mander.xyz
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to astronomy@mander.xyz
this is where the star wars were happening
MetalSlugX@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I take this to be a nail in dark matter’s coffin. The more I learn about it, the more it seems an outrageous placeholder for failing to correctly model and describe gravity. We’ve searched… fuck all has come out of collider research, etc. I can’t believe anymore there is a “particle”.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“Dark matter” is not its own idea. It is literally the name for the unknown observed effect, NOT an explanation for the effect.
Most physicists hate the term “dark matter” too, because it sounds like an explanation when it is literally the opposite.
“Dark matter” could be one or several things at once, because it is the name for the observed phenominon, not an explanation for it.
kichae@wanderingadventure.party 2 weeks ago
LurkingLuddite Yeah, it’s kind of wild that this discussion is happening on this post in particular. This is a galaxy that has multiple times more extreme gravity than other galaxies, and someone wants to use that finding as a reason to sell the idea that dark matter isn’t stuff?
If it were a modling issue, then wwe’d see this everywhere. This is the opposite of evidence against dark matter.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure things have actually been going the opposite way and we’ve only found more and more evidence that it’s a real thing that is there, rather than finding anything that challenges that
MetalSlugX@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Right, but real thing or effect <> dark matter
We’ve found absolutely ZERO evidence, only peculiarities with observations which point to bad models and DM is the fill in. The more we look, the less likely it seems to be as described.