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RE: Using the Sun as a probe for dark matter
Thanks a lot for the references. I hadn't read it before you mentioned them to me. I actually read the original articles that were available here and there.
There are very nice studies. They actually confirm standard cosmology. In this context, 4-5% of the universe consists of normal matter. However, only half of that was observed today. The other half consists of filament of gas linking all the galaxies together (like a kind of web). These studies have measured independently the quantity of matter included in these filament, and the results agree with standard cosmology (still with very significant error bars).
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I hadn't even realize the studies where talking about the visible 4-5%.
My brain had mess up that part when I read. Thank you for clarifying that part and I feel privilege to be able to ask you questions about science.
I won't ask many questions but from time to time I'll probably try to come up with good ones.
Please do ask question anytime! I am always happy to answer them. For instance, this question allowed me to learn something I didn't know, and I am thanking you for that ;)
Furthermore, I think that I will write one of my next posts (maybe the next one just to keep the momentum) about that topic. It is very interesting, and not that known ;)