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Old Galaxies Stick Together In The Young Universe

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Old Galaxies Stick Together In The Young Universe

 

 Before I explain this to you, you need to be in the right mind set.

- Evolution happened
- Galaxies evolved by themselves
- Seeing objects far away is like looking back in time
- Dark matter is the glue of the universe

 Now that you know these facts, astronomers have analyzed images of galaxies that are supposed to be 10 billion years away and have found a large number of red stars in them. These red stars are a problem to anyone that believes in evolution because at the most the stars should only be 4 billion years old. At this young age there should not even be fully formed galaxies let alone old red stars.

To refute this the following logic was applied:
1. The big bang is a fact
2. These galaxies should not be grouped together in such a way because it contradicts the big bang
3. There is therefore something else grouping them together (dark matter)
4. This dark matter is tricking us to think there are red stars

 University of Nottingham PhD student Will Hartley said, "Luckily, even if we don't know what dark matter is, we can understand how gravity will affect it and make it clump together. We can see that the old, red galaxies clump together far more strongly than the young, blue galaxies, so we know that their invisible dark matter halos must be more massive.”

In other words, This dark matter must be there because if it is not the big bang is wrong.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080401160020.htm