Dark Matter Hairs Around Earth
by Science Source
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Dark Matter Hairs Around Earth
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Science Source
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This illustration shows Earth surrounded by filaments of dark matter called 'hairs'. A hair is created when a stream of dark matter particles goes through a planet. According to simulations, the hair is densest at the 'root' of a hair. When particles of a dark matter stream pass through the core of Earth, they form a hair whose root has a particle density about a billion times greater than average. The hairs in this illustration are not to scale. Simulations show that the roots of such hairs can be 600,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from Earth, while Earth's radius is only about 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers).
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July 20th, 2016
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