La NASA anuncia el descubrimiento de la Materia Oscura

Astronomers who used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 21, to announce how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.

Shortly before the start of the briefing, images and graphics about the research will be posted at:

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/

Briefing participants:

- Maxim Markevitch, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.

- Doug Clowe, postdoctoral fellow, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

- Sean Carroll, assistant professor of physics, University of Chicago, Ill.