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https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dark-interactive.html
Looking more elusive as time goes by in new experiments.
Looking more elusive as time goes by in new experiments.
Originally posted by @sonhouseI read the link and basically the astronomers had first collected earlier data that implied that a galaxy had become separated from the dark matter surrounding it, an interesting possibility predicted by some but not all dark-matter models, but then later new data showed it hadn't separated after all.
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dark-interactive.html
Looking more elusive as time goes by in new experiments.
Originally posted by @humyI wonder if there is somewhere out there the remnants of the dark matter cloud that was previously inside that galaxy, a bare blob of dark matter. Do you know if anything like that has ever been discovered?
I read the link and basically the astronomers had first collected earlier data that implied that a galaxy had become separated from the dark matter surrounding it, an interesting possibility predicted by some but not all dark-matter models, but then later new data showed it hadn't separated after all.
I really don't see how anything of significance can be co ...[text shortened]... possibility of the existence of any non-gravitational dark-matter-visible-matter interactions.
Originally posted by @sonhouseno but I assume if such a thing was discovered it would be big news and we would have heard of it so I doubt such a thing has been (yet) discovered. There would also be the question of how that could be discovered since I assume it could only be observed indirectly from some kind of observable gravitational interaction with a group of galaxies but I would imagine such a kind of observable gravitational interaction would be extremely difficult to interpret and any interpretation would be questionable.
I wonder if there is somewhere out there the remnants of the dark matter cloud that was previously inside that galaxy, a bare blob of dark matter. Do you know if anything like that has ever been discovered?
Originally posted by @humyIt seems to me there should be such blobs since we now know of at least one galaxy with no dark stuff inside, either it grew up in a volume of the universe where dark stuff was for some reason a dark matterless region of space and a galaxy was driven inside it but still, another question is how long has it been dark stuff free? Was the galaxy born in such a darkless area or did it shed it later? It might be plan A, darkless when the galaxy was born and stayed in that darkless volume. A darkwhisperer galaxy....
no but I assume if such a thing was discovered it would be big news and we would have heard of it so I doubt such a thing has been (yet) discovered. There would also be the question of how that could be discovered since I assume it could only be observed indirectly from some kind of observable gravitational interaction with a group of galaxies but I would imag ...[text shortened]... eraction would be extremely difficult to interpret and any interpretation would be questionable.