Scientists expected to unveil the discovery of dark matter

Should it prove correct the finding would have an Earth-shattering effect on our understanding of how galaxies form.

This dark matter map was created by the Hubble Telescope by measuring light from distant stars thought to have been deflected by dark matter. The map of half the Universe reveals dark matter filaments, collapsing under the relentless pull of gravity and growing clumpier over time.

Dark matter is believed to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the Universe. We can't see it but scientists think it is there due to the gravitational force it exerts.

It could help account for the 'missing mass' in the Universe that would explain why galaxies rotate at their current speeds.

Scientists have searched for evidence of the hypothetical matter since the 1970s both on Earth and in space.

The Large Hadron Collider is expected to create Big Bang conditions next month. It is hoped the accelerator will create dark matter particles.

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IMPORTANT NOTE OF INFORMATION:
In 1993, Tom Van Flandern, (US Naval Observatory) directed the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office. His book: Dark Matter Missing Planets & New Comets, Paradoxes Resolved Origins Illuminated, published in 1993, was one of the first books to openly suggest that Dark Matter exists.
He was ridiculed by his colleagues and only shortly before his death in February of this year- 2009, did some come to believe dark matter indeed exists.
I truly think that his early death was brought on by the tenor of colleagues who held tightly to their accepted dogma.
We must give credit where credit is due.

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