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When it came to tracking interesting physics last week Sir Peter’s Particle, ie the Higgs, pretty well blew apart hopes of doing much else. But as the media stampede’s dust settles one see through it a nearly coincident smaller instance of herd journalism – and don’t take ‘herd’ as a slight to anybody taking part. For, without such media fixations we’d have even less collective conversation over science news. In Nature an international team (US from U. of Michigan, Kavli-Stanford, Ohio U, and also institutions in Germany and the UK) reported a filament of dark matter between two clusters of galaxies. Actually it’s between a duet of clusters on one side, and a third cluster at the other end.

One might offer that the researchers might better have called that fat connector a bridge, not a filament. (Hold it! Just read Amina Khan’s LA Times story, below. It explains we’re seeing this thing in foreshortened perspective – it really would be long and skinny if we saw it [...]

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