Every Ordinary Matter Object in this Universe is
surrounded by Dark Matter about 10 times its mass!
Not exact matches
ALMOST two years ago, the astronomical world was set alight
by the discovery of dim, point - like objects called MACHOs in the invisible halo of
dark matter that
surrounds our Galaxy (This Week, 25 September 1993).
The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught
by surrounding sensors, when a
dark -
matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.
The «glue» is thought to be provided
by the gravity of the halo of
dark matter which
surrounds them.
The first KiDS results show how the characteristics of the observed galaxies are determined
by the invisible vast clumps of
dark matter surrounding them.
Observations of the orbits of stars around galaxies suggest that all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are
surrounded by a spherical cloud of
dark matter (see diagram).
The picture was taken
by WISE, but has been artistically enhanced to illustrate the idea that clumped galaxies will, on average, be
surrounded by larger halos of
dark matter (represented in purple).
This statement is certainly true if we assume that the only gravitational force present is that exerted
by visible
matter, but it is true even if we assume that every galaxy in the cluster, like the Milky Way, is
surrounded by a halo of
dark matter that contains 90 percent of the mass of the galaxy.»
The Milky Way (like other spiral galaxies) is
surrounded by a large halo region which contains globular clusters, large clouds of hydrogen gas, and a huge mass of the mysterious
dark matter.
«For example, the Milky Way should be
surrounded by hundreds of small, invisible
dark matter halos, but we have so far only detected less than 50 galaxies,» says Yozin.
In 2007, a similar collision with the Milky Way was projected for Smith's Cloud within 20 to 40 million years, which is now believed to be
surrounded by a massive halo of
dark matter so that the entire incoming object has a «tidal mass» of some 300 million Solar - masses.
Just like an overwhelming majority of the Universe is made of mysterious substances like
dark matter and
dark energy, Big Data is
surrounded by data that can not be comprehended or seen.