Astronomers at the University of Zürich and the ETH Zürich have discovered that there is a large amount of dark matter around the sun, this supports the theory that the sun is surrounded by a ring of dark matter. Dark matter was first proposed by a Swiss astronomer, he supposed that that clusters of galaxies where filled with some weird kind of new matter, called dark matter which kept them from falling apart. Ever since scientists have been mystified by dark matter and trying to piece together diagrams that never quite fit. This new and modern group of scientists are developing a new way of measuring dark matter. Their first discovery was that the models used before where all biased and always had two little dark matter. Using this information they have measured thousands of k dwarf stars near the sun and have come up with a new measurement of the dark matter near us, well near in an astronomical term. "We are 99% confident that there is dark matter near the Sun," says the lead author Silvia Garbari. In fact, if anything, the authors' favored dark matter density is a little high: they find more dark matter than expected at 90% confidence. There is a 10% chance that this is merely a statistical fluke, but if future data confirms this high value the implications are exciting as Silvia explains: "This could be the first evidence for a "disc" of dark matter in our Galaxy, as recently predicted by theory and numerical simulations of galaxy formation, or it could mean that the dark matter halo of our galaxy is squashed, boosting the local dark matter density." I find all of this information interesting, obviously or I wouldn't hve written this blog post and this is of course quite a large step forward but I still think we are nowhere near finding out what dark matter really is.
This sounds cool. I wonder how long it took them to learn this and how this could help them learn more about the sun
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