Thursday, May 9, 2013

ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News

ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News


Astronomers discover surprising clutch of hydrogen clouds lurking among our galactic neighbors

Posted: 08 May 2013 10:17 AM PDT

In a dark, starless patch of intergalactic space, astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33). The researchers speculate that these rarefied blobs of gas -- each about as massive as a dwarf galaxy -- condensed out of a vast and as-yet undetected reservoir of hot, ionized gas, which could have accompanied an otherwise invisible band of dark matter.

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