Dark matter found ?

[Hank]

 It seems NASA has found more matter, in fact a horde of matter in space. I did not see this posted here. If it was just delete.

http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/releases/2002/02-190.html

This is awesome stuff. You just want to hop in a space ship and check it out

So why is this gas still so utterly hot, and why does it not radiate anything we can detect?
Any astronomers out there?

 

[Satyricon]

That is extremely strange, and I'm surprised I haven't heard of this before now. But I don't think it's the dark matter we're looking for, because dark matter is supposed to reside within galaxies, it is what holds them together.

Note this part of the article:

The hot gas detected by Chandra can be used to trace the presence of the more massive dark matter component. The discovery of the hot gas may eventually enable astronomers to map of the distribution of dark matter in the universe and perhaps understand its origin.

It's also interesting that the existence of this gas has been predicted yet they haven't found it until now.