Invisible, Starless Galaxy Discovered

Yep. It’s true. No stars. Nothing to look at. Just matter, swirling around like a galaxy does, but without any detectable light or any visible sign of value, sort of like the FDA or the RIAA.

HERE is the link.

Astronomers say they have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter.

The team, led by Cardiff University, claimed it is the first to be detected.

A dark galaxy is an area in the Universe containing a large amount of mass that rotates like a galaxy, but contains no stars.

It was found 50 million light years away using radio telescopes in Cheshire and Puerto Rico.

The unknown material that is thought to hold these dark galaxies together is known as ‘dark matter’, but scientists still know very little about what that is.

The five-year research has involved studying the distribution of hydrogen atoms throughout the Universe, estimated by looking at the rotation of galaxies and the speed at which their components moved.

Hydrogen gas releases radiation that can be detected at radio wavelengths.

In the Virgo cluster of galaxies, they found a mass of hydrogen atoms a hundred million times the mass of the Sun.

The mysterious galaxy has been called VIRGOHI21.

Obviously, THIS is the place we will find all those lost socks, lost luggage, lost earrings, lost keys and lost remotes, etc., etc., since these things were (dissappointingly) not found in the relatively nearby rings of Saturn, as was previously believed.

BTW, if you look closely at the picture provided at the link, do you really see anything at all? I wonder how often these science-types love to pull one over on the rest of us, showing us a picture of a galaxy that isn’t there, or Dark Matter that cannot be seen. And, why, for instance, can we see all the stars and galaxies behind this invisible galaxy?

Of course the scientists need Dark Matter to be there. They also need Dark Energy. They need these things desperately, since without it, they cannot explain the universe as it exists today with their latest and greatest physics and mathematics.

Hang around a couple of decades and watch. Perhaps Dark Matter will go the way of the Ether, which was a popular and very scientific belief for nearly a century or more, up until the 1900’s.

Film at 11.