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P1-3
• A cloud of dark matter has been detected expanding like a smoke ring from a giant collision between galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the smoke ring could offer clues to the nature of the mysterious matter.
• Dark matter: don’t emit, absorb or reflect lights
Reveal itself: gravity influences normal matter around it; outweighs normal matter by a factor of six
• Astronauts discovered what it looks like a ring of dark matter expand
Help to understand dark matter’s nature
P4-5
• MJJ lead the team to make the discovery
Detected the ring in HST
• Carefully observed how matter bends the path of light rays
‘Gravitational lensing’ effect => map out the distribution of matter, including dark matter, cluster
P6-8 colossal collision
• They found a curious ring-like structure around the cluster’s outskirt
No concentration of visible matter => ring is made of dark matter
Most of the cluster’s ordinary matter is thought to be in the form of hot gas, concentrated at the core of the center
• CI 0024+17 is not a single cluster but a pair of clusters that have collided => dark matter explodes outwards, forming a spherical shell
• Shell looks like a ring in the gravitational lensing study
Collision happened 1b and 2b years ago
P9-12 modified gravity
• Some scientists suggested modifications of Newton’s law could account for anomalies
ordinary matter and dark matter mixed => This probability is difficult to rule out
• But the ring of C is separate from ordinary matter => difficult to explain without dark matter => strongest evidence to date
• Previous separation of BC, but C is more complete
• MB said the dark matter ring is real, important
P 13-16 instrumental effect
• The ring’s characteristics depend on the properties of dark matter participles
• New scientist: exciting result, a ton of info about dark matter
• But the gravitational effect is very subtle, imperfect instruments => distortions
• Trust, but sceptical
P 17-19 exotic particles
• The team initially suspect the ring was an illusion made by Hubble’s instrument. But this effect doesn’t appear in other observations.
• Dark matter does not interact strongly with any other through any force except gravity.
• But ‘mirror matter’ interacts frequently with itself through a range of forces
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