Cosmic web12/17/2023 ![]() While the search for Dark Matter is ongoing and direct evidence is yet to be found, scientists have also been aware that roughly 90% of the Universe’s normal matter still remained undetected. This “Dark Matter” accounts for roughly 26.8% of the mass of the Universe, whereas normal matter accounts for just 4.9%. “normal” or “luminous” matter, which we can see – the Universe also contains a substantial amount of invisible mass. Can You Tell Which is Which?”įor decades, the predominant cosmological model used by scientists has been based on the theory that in addition to baryonic matter – aka. Continue reading “One of These Pictures Is the Brain, the Other is the Universe. The green central cell body is ? 10µm in diameter. Another spiritual moment was seeing this image for the first time: Hippocampal mouse neuron studded with synaptic connections (yellow), courtesy Lisa Boulanger, from. Like when I first learned that I was literally made of the ashes of the stars – the atoms in my body spread into the eternal ether by supernovae. Learning about the Universe, I’ve felt spiritual moments, as Sagan describes them, as I better understand my connection to the wider everything. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.” – Carl Sagan “The Demon-Haunted World.” “Science is not only compatible with spirituality it is a profound source of spirituality. Continue reading “A Dark Matter map of our Local Cosmic Neighborhood” Using cutting-edge machine-learning techniques, a team of Korean-American astrophysicists was able to produce the most detailed map yet of the local Universe that shows what the “ cosmic web” looks like. However, it is possible to infer its distribution based on the observable influence its gravity has on local galaxies and other celestial objects. Unfortunately, the mysterious nature of Dark Matter means that astronomers cannot study it directly, thus prevented them from measuring its distribution. But more than that, it also provides the large-scale skeletal structure of the Universe (the cosmic web), which dictates the motions of galaxies and material because of its gravitational influence. This invisible mass is believed to make up 85% of the matter in the Universe and accounts for 27% of its mass-energy density. Since it was first theorized in the 1970s, astrophysicists and cosmologists have done their best to resolve the mystery that is Dark Matter.
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