UC Irvine scientists have discovered what they believe to be the mysterious ‘Dark Matter’ in our galaxy. They have discovered a minimum mass that is 10 million times the size of the sun. So what does that have to do with us?

Apparently everything.

“By knowing this minimum galaxy mass, we can better understand how dark matter behaves, which is essential to one day learning how our universe and life as we know it came to be,” said Louis Strigari, a McCue Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI, in a press release.

The people on the UC Irvine campus are making big disvoveries out of very very small things.

The ‘Dark Matter,’ whose luminosity is 10 million times the size of the sun, is the key ingredient to how things in the universe are created. Galaxies like the Milky Way would not exist without it. That connection has now had our UCI geniuses thinking about our existence, or at least our planet’s.

This discovery is a very small part of this projects goal. This team is apart of the news worthy team of physicists will attempt to generate ‘Dark Matter’ in a laboratory using a machine called the Large Hadron Collider later today.

Let’s just hope that machine does not malfunction and the ‘Dark Matter’ doesn’t collapse and create a black hole that the entire world gets sucked into. I’m pretty sure that would put an end to the funding this project is getting.