mo4ch:>Are dark matter ‘clumps’ tearing holes in the Milky Way? | Mo4ch News
A ‘dense bullet’ of dark matter a million times larger than the sun may have plowed through the Milky Way, dragging stars out of line behind it, in an astrophysical model that explains a mysterious ’glitch’ in the galaxy.The “galactic hit-and-run” theory explains the ragged gap discovered in GD-1, the longest stellar stream in the galaxy, according to Ana Bonaca, a fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who presented her theory at the American Physical Society last month. Instead of the single smooth-edged gap one would expect to find at the origin point of the stellar stream, GD-1 has a second gap, with a “spur” of stars hanging off, as if they were dragged by gravity behind some huge “dark impactor” barreling through the universe.Also on rt.comMoon is geologically active – and SHRINKING, seismic readings showWhy a gigantic blob of dark matter? “We can’t map [the impactor] to any luminous object that we have observed,” Bonaca explains, and “it’s much more massive …