A strange dark matter phenomena is speeding towards the Sun at speeds of 500 kilometers per second according to a new study published in the journal Physical Review D, led by theoretical physicist Ciaran O’Hare from the University of Zaragoza in Spain. The team detected 10 billion solar masses worth of dark matter from an ancient dwarf galaxy swallowed by the Milky Way billions of years ago traveling along S1, streaming directly towards the Sun.
China unveiled on Tuesday a replica of its first permanently crewed “Heavenly Palace” (Tiangong) space station that will be composed of three parts－a core module attached to two space labs－having a combined weight of more than 90 metric tons, the academy said., space station, which would replace the international community’s orbiting laboratory and symbolizes the country’s major ambitions beyond Earth.
A mere one billion light-years away in the nearby galaxy cluster known as Abell 2597, there lies a gargantuan galactic fountain. A massive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy has been observed pumping a vast spout of cold molecular gas into space, which then rains back onto the black hole as an intergalactic deluge .The in- and outflow of such a vast cosmic fountain has never before been observed in combination, and has its origin in the innermost 100 000 light-years of the brightest galaxy in the Abell 2597 cluster.
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