Dark matter in the Coma cluster
Materia oscura en el cúmulo de Coma
- Date
- 1933 · confidence high
- Place
- Caltech / Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, United States
- Credited to
- Fritz Zwicky
- People
- 👤 Fritz Zwicky1898–1974
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Zwicky measured that the galaxies in the Coma cluster move too fast for the visible mass and postulated 'dark matter' (dunkle Materie) holding them together.
Ignored for decades until the work of Rubin and Ford.
What it led to
- Vera Rubin's rotation curves (1970)
- Cold dark matter cosmology
- Search for dark matter particles