Dark Matter in the Coma Cluster

1933 · Fritz Zwicky

Year: 1933

Description

Zwicky measured how fast the galaxies were moving and found the cluster needed several hundred times more mass than its light accounted for. He was ignored for forty years.

Discoverer

Fritz Zwicky

Referenced by

researcher

Fritz Zwicky

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