Re:Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
by jeanlou on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:12AM
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"Alleged dark" matter he should have said. He haven't been able to detect it up to now.
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Re:Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
by Out_of_Characte on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:20AM
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Dark matter has a very simple and literal explanation, matter affected by gravity (thus below the speed of light) that we arent able to detect. This could be almost entirely mundane things like planets of asteroids that are impossible to see at lightyears if they dont pass in front of a star.
Dark energy is the odd one that is part observation, part speculation
Re:Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
by z3phyr on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:27AM
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In our Solar System, planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, space dust together hold 0.15% mass. The rest of the 99.85% mass is held by the Sun. I think this mass distribution is uniformly true for other stellar systems as well, where majority of the mass is held by the stars (singular, binary, collapsed) and very small amount by other objects in the system.
Given the above, why is there so much postulated "dark matter"?