Showing posts with label Cosmic Variance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosmic Variance. Show all posts

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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