Scientists Reveal Invisible Dark Matter Galaxy Is Larger Than Solar System

First Posted: Jun 14, 2016 05:20 AM EDT
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Dark Matter Galaxies were discovered 4 billion light years away from Earth. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array captured a photo with soft distortions.

A dark dwarf galaxy that contains mostly of dark matter is one of the two missing pieces in the universe. The two missing pieces are the dark matter and the dark energy.

The dark matter is said to be the glue that holds galaxies together. However, a conflicting discovery was uncovered by an astrophysicist and suggested that these dark matters are cutting through the space. Dark matter has not been observed directly because they do not know where to find it and no one knows what it looks like, but it does exist and it is crucial to the universe, Mail Online reported.

In 1932, a Dutch Astronomer named Jan Oort proposed that the concentrated disk that contains the dark matter may reveal the movement of the stars. The argument failed to be studied further with numerous experts while believing that halos are spherical clouds formed from the dark matter.

The study has been opened again by Lisa Randal of Harvard University. The dark matter galaxy is believed to be larger than the solar system. Gary Prezeau from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory published a new study that explains how the dark matter particles react with the Earth's gravity  producing an ultra-dense filament that looks like hair above the planet's surface, Albany Daily Star reported. However, the stream does not interact with the Earth's normal matter.

According to reports, as the hair emerges from Earth, roots are formed around 600,000 miles above surface. Tips of the filaments are estimated to be twice as far from the Earth's surface. This discovery could assist scientists to study the mystery of the dark matter by sending a probe.

The dark matter galaxy is completely invisible from telescopes at the present. Scientists have been seeing these distortions for two decades and call them as discrepancies in space.

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