In Dark Matter, New Hints of a Universal Glue: “Sometimes, defying its wont, science makes the cosmos look a little simpler. Recently it seems as if astronomers have been sprung from a long cosmological nightmare. Last month a consortium of astronomers announced that an analysis of some 130,000 galaxies showed that the the universe, at least on large scales, is structured pretty much the way it looks.

That might sound unremarkable, but it didn’t have to come out that way…” New York Times [name: “FMHreader”, password: “FMHreader”]