Re:Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
by coder23 on Saturday July 26, 2014 @05:57AM
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I have never heard about detecting gravitational lensing coming from empty space. Do you have any info/references on that?
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When two galaxy clusters collide, the ordinary matter can get slowed down by non-gravitational interactions, leaving the dark matter to continue on inertia and gravity alone.
Closest references I could find: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-dark-galaxies-ways-collision-he...
"In the Bullet Cluster, a collision between two galaxy clusters appears to have caused a separation of dark matter and baryonic matter." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter
Re:Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
by ObviousScience on Saturday July 26, 2014 @06:29AM
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Here are the first links that came up when Googling it:
http://www.lsst.org/lsst/science/scientist_dark_matter
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/04/20/how-gravi...
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~ger/ASTRO-110_sp08/Lecture28_Dark...