In a recently published paper Meneghetti et al. (2020) in Science, she and her collaborators report a new gap – an order of magnitude discrepancy – revealed using a precision metric – the cross-section for galaxy-galaxy strong lensing, between cold dark matter simulations and observed cluster lenses. This suggests that there is a feature of the real universe that we are simply not capturing in our current theoretical models, or there is a gap in our current understanding of the nature of dark matter and its properties.
Hello,
I am enjoying reading ‘Mapping the Heavens.’ It is exciting and well written.
David Boyce, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, 1965
retired and living in Scottsdale, AZ
Many thanks!