A newly discovered “dark flow” appears to carry clusters of
galaxies toward a point in the southern sky, a new study suggests.
As if dark matter and dark energy weren’t confusing enough,
researchers detected what they have dubbed dark flow while surveying 700 galaxy
clusters — each containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies — within a radius
of approximately 1 billion light-years.
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