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Friday, November 30, 2007

"ALGORITHMS: Researcher claims to have found missing dark matter"

As much as 96 percent of the known Universe seems to be missing. Called dark matter or dark energy, the missing elements do not appear to emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be directly observed. Researchers at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) now claim to have located the missing dark matter in a halo around galaxies. Using a supercomputer to create the most accurate model yet of galaxy formation, the researchers claim the missing matter was there all along, just not where researchers expected it to be.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204400259