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Article: Dark matter mysteriously found devoid of galaxies in comic 'train wreck'
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 17, 2007
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Washington, Aug. 17 -- Astronomers have discovered a chaotic scene unlike any witnessed before in a cosmic "train wreck" between giant galaxy clusters.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which astronomers believe, could pose problems for current theories of dark matter behaviour.
"These results challenge our understanding of the way clusters merge, or they possibly make us even re-examine the nature of dark matter itself," said Dr. Andisheh Mahdavi of the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
"It blew us away that it looks ...