Friday, January 1, 2010

So, Pollock, have we found the dark matter yet?

As a Holiday Special, Amusing Graphical Abstracts brings you something that isn't a graphical abstract, but is definitely amusing nonetheless. The venerable astrophysics and cosmology blog Cosmic Variance brings you a "newly discovered late-period Jackson Pollock":
The irony of this diagram of dark matter detection data is that it's so wonderfully colored, and yet there isn't a single black patch in the plot.

Reference: S. Carroll, "Art, Meet Science", Cosmic Variance, 2009-12-31.

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