How did scientist know that the dark ring found by hubble telescope is in fact dark matter?
NASA will explain all this in a press briefing tomorrow: “NASA Updates Plans for Hubble ‘Ring Of Dark Matter’ Briefing GREENBELT, Md. – NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on May 15 to discuss the strongest evidence to date that dark matter exists. This evidence was found in a ghostly ring of dark matter in the cluster CL0024+17, discovered using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The ring is the first detection of dark matter with a unique structure different from the distribution of both the galaxies and the hot gas in the cluster. The discovery will be featured in the June 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.” Apparently NASA has jumped the gun and printed the press release that will be issued tomorrow. It is much too long to quote here. To see it go to the second website listed. BORIS, You wrote that you hoped the news conference would be on the web.
