X-rays reveal heart of darkness
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Japanese researchers have provided compelling evidence that the dark matter found in the Fornax cluster of galaxies is clustered on two distinct scalea. A modeled of X-ray gas emissions measured by the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics showed two distinct components on deviating scales, one linked to the cluster as a whole and the other forming part of the giant galaxy. The evidence points to a hierarchical distribution of dark matter.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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A 120-Mpc periodicity in the three-dimensional distribution of galaxy superclusters
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Galaxy superclusters and voids form a quasi-regular three-dimensional network whose high-density areas are separated by (infinity) 120Mpc. This finding was based on Abell's new compilation of available data on galaxy clusters. Contrary to the common notion that large-scale structures in the Universe are randomly distributed, data reveal that luminous matter in galaxy clusters is regularly distributed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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