"The WMAP team cares about the cosmological signal and has carefully removed the foreground signals so they don't interfere with it," says Finkbeiner, "but these foreground signals are interesting in their own right."

According to WMAP scientists, non-cosmological microwaves could come from ionized hydrogen in our own Milky Way Galaxy, interstellar dust, and from the fast electrons found in supernova remnants. But Finkbeiner set out to quantify these local sources to see if, together, they match the non-CMB component of WMAP's observations.

They do, he found, with one interesting exception: An unexplainable haze surrounds the center of the Milky Way, extending out to about 20º on the sky. If you take account of its strength at different wavelengths, this radiation looks like what ionized hydrogen atoms emit — only there aren't enough of those around. The radiation also looks like what would be emitted by fast electrons in a magnetic field — but they would have to be moving near the speed of light.

And that's what gave Finkbeiner the idea that he might have discovered the signal of dark matter. He has put forward his theory in an as-yet-unpublished paper and at a conference on dark matter held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in September.

Originally posted by Gear
is Dark Matter the same as Anti Matter?

Originally posted by jhh
Since we don't have the right to question Einstein and Newton, we have invented a massive, invisible object to explain a discrepancy.

Science is just as bad as religion as far as being close minded. Now if this man said their is something wrong with the laws of motion, his career would be finished.