Astrophysicists unwind 'Cold Dark Matter Catastrophe' conundrum
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 07:07
in Astronomy & Space
For nearly twenty years scientists have been trying to resolve the discrepancy in the cold dark matter paradigm - the so-called "Cold Dark Matter catastrophe". Recently an international research group including physics professor Lucio Mayer from the University of Zurich has succeeded in unraveling this paradox in a simulation of bulgeless dwarf galaxy formation.