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They're finding that giant superclusters of galaxies are flowing towards
a specific section of the sky. As I recall something like this was brought up decades before, it was something called the Great Attractor. Great Attractor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor Anyways, it seems like this is the second time this year that a paper has likened the Universe to a body of fluid. The other time was when the theory of Dark Fluid was put forward which seems to explain both Dark Matter and Dark Energy as subsets of the same thing. [0804.1588] Dark Fluid: Towards a unification of empirical theories of galaxy rotation, Inflation and Dark Energy http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1588 Anyways here's the new article about Dark Flow. SPACE.com -- Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space "They discovered that the clusters were moving nearly 2 million mph (3.2 million kph) toward a region in the sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. This motion is different from the outward expansion of the universe (which is accelerated by the force called dark energy). "We found a very significant velocity, and furthermore, this velocity does not decrease with distance, as far as we can measure," Kashlinsky told SPACE.com. "The matter in the observable universe just cannot produce the flow we measure."" http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ark-flows.html |
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