RE: ASTRO: Dark Matter problem gets worse!

From: Ramez Naam (ramezn@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 20:10:18 MST


From: bradbury@aeiveos.com [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com]
>
> For those of you that didn't catch it...
>
> Science News:
> "A Dark View of the Universe"
> @ http://www.sciencenews.org/20000108/bob3.asp
>
> "The halos extend 1.5 *million* light-years from each
> galaxy's center and contain *at least* as much mass as
> 5 trillion suns."

It's not clear, however, that this contradicts the theory put forth last
month that it is energy bound up in the cosmological constant that accounts
for this missing mass:

http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991218/newsstory12.html



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