Today In Geekdom: Double Whammy Of Awesome Science!on July 5,
2012 at 6:19 pm So not only did scientists find (probably) the
elusive (but monumentally important) Higgs-Boson particle but
they also, at long last, they’ve directly detected actual Dark
Matter. What’s Dark Matter? Why, it only accounts for the shape
of the galaxies and universe as we know it. Oh yeah, and there’s
five times (at least) the amount of Dark matter than there is
the regular matter that makes up all the stuff we can see like
star, galaxies and Donald Trump’s hairpiece. Basically, it’s a
fundamental aspect of reality as we know it and we’ve been
unable to directly detect it. Until now. A ‘finger’ of the
Universe’s dark-matter skeleton, which ultimately dictates where
galaxies form, has been observed for the first time. Researchers
have directly detected a slim bridge of dark matter joining two
clusters of galaxies, using a technique that could eventually
help astrophysicists to understand the structure of the Universe
and identify what