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Places that do science reporting are talking about this in terms of it "might" have been detected. Even the lead scientist is using language like "if this is true" Sounds like a lot of hedging. At least more than that headline is indicating
What I’d love to see is how this fits statistically into ΛCDM rather than the headline “cosmology overturned” vibe. A single huge, rotating structure is cool, but without a clear handle on selection effects it might just be an impressive outlier, not a broken model.
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Places that do science reporting are talking about this in terms of it "might" have been detected. Even the lead scientist is using language like "if this is true" Sounds like a lot of hedging. At least more than that headline is indicating
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-years-scientists-dark.html
The paper: A 15 Mpc rotating galaxy filament at redshift z = 0.032
Any want to explain what this means for our understanding of physics IF true?
AND dark matter?
Sounds pretty definitive there...
The thing about dark matter is that we have tons of observations of it, or rather the effects of it. We just don't know what the heck it really is.
What I’d love to see is how this fits statistically into ΛCDM rather than the headline “cosmology overturned” vibe. A single huge, rotating structure is cool, but without a clear handle on selection effects it might just be an impressive outlier, not a broken model.