By Filings on
Christian Living
Creation
Science
Cosmology

“ ‘Finding a galaxy without any [dark matter] is completely unexpected; it challenges standard ideas of how galaxies work,’ Allison Merritt, one of the researchers, said in a statement. A paper describing the discovery appears in the journal Nature.” BPNews

Discussion

Tue, 04/10/18

The Wikipedia entry on dark matter is dense with technical terms but still quite interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter The theory is not quite as simple as “90% of the universe.” More like 90% (or 80%, Wiki says) of the parts of the universe that could be observed if you were there to observe it.

The gist: there’s a bunch of gravitational behavior out there that can’t be accounted for by the matter we can see through interactions with light (or the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum either). So we don’t know what’s holding these things together…. galaxies and other things.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.

Tue, 04/10/18

[Aaron Blumer]

The gist: there’s a bunch of gravitational behavior out there that can’t be accounted for by the matter we can see through interactions with light (or the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum either). So we don’t know what’s holding these things together…. galaxies and other things.

”For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” - (Colossians 1:16-17 ESV)