Hairy Dark Matter

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Dark matter and dark energy are phantoms of the scientific community. The scientific community has tried to detect dark matter for decades. Hairy dark matter could be the key to the secrets of the Big Bang and the events that occurred afterwards. Condensed filaments of dark matter, hairs, in our galactic neighborhood could be used to gather incredible amounts of data that was previously unavailable to us. Hairy dark matter is a type of dark matter, formed by the gravity of space objects, that can potentially be used to map the depths of oceans and interiors of planetary bodies. Hairy dark matter might be the first type of dark matter that could be observed by scientists. In the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky observed the Coma cluster, a cluster of over 1000 galaxies. Zwicky estimated the mass of the cluster, and when he measured the velocities of the galaxies he discovered an alarming issue. The velocity of some of the galaxies were travelling so fast that they should have spun off into deep space; however they remained within the cluster. An invisible form of matter was weighing the galaxies down. The theory of dark matter was created as the potential solution to the problem (Grocutt). “Massive amounts of it [dark matter] formed a tangled web of filaments after the Big Bang and ensuing epoch of cosmic inflation …show more content…
A chance observation and acknowledgement of an error produced the theory of dark matter, a theory that challenged everything that was known about the universe. Hairy dark matter is an elementary solution to the issue of detecting dark matter. The information that can be gathered from hairy dark matter would be a fingerprint of the layers of cosmic bodies, and could even be used to map the oceans on Earth. Hairy dark matter is the universe’s history book. Science would rapidly advance with the potential data stored within the

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