Cosmological simulations include dozens of prescriptions to describe the 13.8-billion-year evolution of the Universe, including numerical recipes for dark energy (so-called lambda), weakly interacting cold dark matter, gas accretion onto primordial galaxies, star formation and evolution, and feedback from quasars and supernovae. The outcome of these lambda cold dark matter simulations reproduce many of the observed features of the real universe. However, the models predict that dozens of small dwarf satellite galaxies should orbit medium-sized galaxies like our Milky Way and Andromeda in random orientations, but new research suggests most satellite galaxies orbit their host galaxies aligned along a single plane.
An international team of researchers have considered the late Stephen Hawking’s 1974 theory of the existence of primordial black holes, born shortly after the Big Bang, and his speculation that they could make up a large fraction of the elusive dark matter scientists are trying to discover today.
A long time ago gravity drew two galaxies together into the gorgeously chaotic state we see above with NGC 6052. Stars from within both of the original galaxies now follow new trajectories caused by the new gravitational effects.
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Radio Signals Detected from Earliest Epoch of the Universe 
The Weirdness of Dark-Matter Free Galaxies
Universal Mechanics of Galaxies – Outer Edge Rotates Once Every Billion Years 
Last Week’s Top 5 Space & Science Headlines –Stephen Hawking’s Warning to the Missing Black Holes
The Extraterrestrial Signal -We May Not Want to Receive (Weekend Feature)
Theoretical Wormholes — “Could Be Hiding Within Dark Matter Inside the Milky Way” (Weekend Feature)
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Plumes of Enceladus and Europa–Harbinger’s of Life in Global Oceans of Our Solar System?
Astronomers Confirm a New Class of Binary Stars
Triple-Star System of Eta Carinae – Five Million Times Brighter than Our Sun
