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01-07-2010, 09:10 PM #1
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Now I see.......
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01-07-2010, 09:24 PM #3
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Thanked: 735From the NASA website:
Remarkably, it turns out there is five times more material in clusters of galaxies than we would expect from the galaxies and hot gas we can see. Most of the stuff in clusters of galaxies is invisible and, since these are the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity, scientists then conclude that most of the matter in the entire Universe is invisible.
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Only about 4.6% of the mass of Universe is ordinary matter. About 23% is thought to be composed of dark matter. The remaining 72% is thought to consist of dark energy, an even stranger component, distributed diffusely in spac
Who's the one with the imaginary friend in the sky now?
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Thanked: 1587Are you sure you were not a bullfighter in another life Seraphim?
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