Dark Matter and the Frontier of EUV Astronomy

How the discovery of dark hydrogen provides a mundane (and profound) resolution to the Dark Matter problem.

Brett Holverstott
16 min readJan 6, 2019

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Dark matter detection from gravitational lensing. Illustration by Matt Schmidt.

In 1933, Caltech astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed that the galaxies within the Coma cluster were orbiting one another too quickly. Much too quickly.

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Brett Holverstott
Dialogue & Discourse

Writer on topics of science & art, architect, art gallery owner.