"1st Dark Matter Bridge Discovered Linking Two Galaxy Clusters" says the headline. Half the universe's matter in a 58 million light-year long 'finger', says the article. Universe has 'dark matter skeleton.' it continues... that governs structure formation, it says.
The facts:
Abell 222 and Abell 223 are 'galaxy clusters' 2.7 billion light-years away.
Data from XMM-Newton and the Subaru Telescope shows an energetic link between them.
10% of the mass in that energetic flow is planets etc
9% is 'hot gas'
Editorial view.
The EU perspective is easy - the rest of the matter in the energy link is a purer form of plasma, sans gas., yes, 'dark-mode' or invisible plasma.
The Dailygalaxy.com article uses the word 'filament' nine times but only manages to hint at the existence of plasma once, when referring to hot gas. That is most likely because standard cosmology tends to understate plasma's significance and ubiquity; so too with the EM force.
By sidestepping dealing with plasma and electricity, the Academy has already made itself a muffled-giggling-stock by being completely wrong about the sun.
Mal-terminology is another issue. Terms like 'dark matter', 'black holes' and yes, even 'dark mode' plasma are obviously simply borrowings from the Dark Ages. The adjective denotes a lack of knowledge about the subject and is not descriptive at all. This kind of confusing nomenclature is not very conducive to the promotion of popular science, nor proper science.
Prediction:
These kinds of 'bridges' will be found to be common. Very common, and a closer focus will find them to consist of twisted current pairs.
Original article: credit to http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/07/1st-dark-matter-bridge-discovered-linking-two-galaxy-clusters.html
