Dark Matter's Unpaid Account
Five-to-one is a rude ratio: dark matter appears to outweigh the atoms that build stars, planets, lungs, and laboratories. The sky will not confess. Although it emits, reflects, and absorbs no light, its gravity bends background images through gravitational lensing, explains galactic rotation curves, and prevents galaxies from shedding outer stars. The pull remains. In the cosmic microwave backgro...More
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