Giant Sheets of Dark Matter Detected

[Mark]

Giant Sheets of Dark Matter Detected
Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News

Feb. 22, 2008 -- The most colossal structures in the universe have been detected by astronomers who tuned into how the structures subtly bend galactic light.

The newfound filaments and sheets of dark matter form a gigantic features stretching across more than 270 million light-years of space--three times larger than any other known structure and 2,000 times the size of our own galaxy.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/22/dark-matter-giants.html

Pretty wild Stuff there - Read the whole thing. The "matter" bends light like they've been stating BlackHoles can for a long time.

 

[.X.]

Wild indeed, Extremely interesting read, I would love to be able to see very clear pics of this.

 

[dgridley]

Here's some other interesting news about Dark Matter I was reading about the other day:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal...-the-key-to-universal-mysteries_10019282.html

and

http://science.howstuffworks.com/dark-matter.htm