Documentary Description
There's something very odd going on in space - something that
shouldn't be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are
being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner.
Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is
understandably nervous: 'It left us quite unsettled and jittery' he
says, 'because this is not something we planned to find'. The accidental
discovery of what is ominously being called 'dark flow' not only has
implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies - it also
means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of
understanding the universe.
Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have
threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of
understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the
universe is wrong?
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