http://www.metafilter.com/tags/DarkFlow Posts tagged with 'DarkFlow' at MetaFilter. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:03:03 -0800 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:03:03 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/84685/At%2D1789549%2Dmph%2Dthats%2Da%2Dhell%2Dof%2Da%2Dflow "<a href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/08/dark-flow-discovered-at-edge-of-the-universe-hundreds-of-millions-of-stars-racing-toward-an-cosmic-h.html">You have no idea how big that is. This is giant on a scale where it's not just that we can't see what's doing it; it's that the entire makeup of the universe as we understand it can't be right if this is happening.</a>" tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84685 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:03:03 -0800 cosmological cosmology dark darkflow flow universe WCityMike http://www.metafilter.com/75164/Dark%2DFlow <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080923-dark-flows.html">Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space.</a> "As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered. Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/dark_flow.html">Astronomers are calling the phenomenon 'dark flow.'</a> The stuff that's pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude." Here's the paper (subscription required): <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/592947">A Measurement of Large-Scale Peculiar Velocities of Clusters of Galaxies: Results and Cosmological Implications</a>. NASA has preprints you can download: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/pdf/276176main_ApJLetters_20Oct2008.pdf">results and implications</a> and <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/pdf/276175main_ApJ_inpress.pdf">technical details</a> (PDFs). tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75164 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:28:16 -0800 Astronomy Astrophysics BigBang DarkFlow Gravity NASA Pook Science Space Universe homunculus