Earth enters super typhoon

A giant swirling storm with the element of stealthy "dark matter" is blowing through Earth, according to new British and Spanish research.

The team from the University of Zaragoza (Spain), King's College London and the Institute of Astronomy have just discovered S1 - an invisible hurricane carrying the remnants of a dead galaxy blowing through the area There is Earth in the Milky Way galaxy.

The study is based on data obtained from the Gaia Space Station of the European Space Agency (ESA), which is in the task of mapping the Milky Way galaxy.

Simulating NASA's dark matter storm.

is a hypothetical form of matter with mysterious ingredients and completely invisible to human eyes. Modern devices still have no way of capturing dark matter but can only recognize its presence thanks to effects on other solid objects, as if one recognizes the presence of a Ghosts in movies.

This time too, scientists determined the dark matter storm by tracking unusual movements of 30,000 stars with strange chemical composition. They were moving in elliptical orbits like an invisible swirling wind.

30,000 of these stars are remnants of a dwarf galaxy that once hit us and was swallowed up by the Milky Way .

According to calculations, the storm of dark matter is shaped like a tropical cyclone but on a massive scale. The most special thing is that right now, it's sweeping the earth at a speed of 500 km / sec. However, since this is an invisible form of material, you cannot see it. It also doesn't affect people and things like normal storms, but just silently passes like ghosts so you can't feel it.

The team believes that the finding helped them prove the existence of dark matter. About 68% of the universe is dark energy, 27% is dark matter and 5% is all you can see: planets, stars . It is estimated that dozens of dark matter storms are raging in our galaxy.

It is expected that it will take 1 million years for the dark matter storm to leave Earth. The study has just been published in Physical Review D.