Dark Matter Is Even Stranger Than We Thought | SciShow News

Scientists can see how dark matter is distributed based on how its gravity affects light, but when astronomers compared recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope to current models, something didn’t add up. Does this mean our current assumptions about dark matter physics are wrong? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sources: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.02102.pdf https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.111105 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/nsfc-hos091020.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/aaft-msd090820.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/eic-nhd091020.php https://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/science_papers/heic2016/heic2016a.pdf https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/09/09/physicists-explain-mysterious-dark-matter-deficiency-galaxy-pair Image Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2524/newly-processed-views-of-venus-from-mariner-10/ https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/242669.php?from=476757 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20244 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NGC_1052_SDSS.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11609