Mirror World and the Cosmic Expansion Crisis
Chapter 1

The broken mirror of our universe

Chapter 2

The dark sector and its hidden forces

Chapter 3

Hunting for the invisible in the lab

Chapter 4

Mirror stars and invisible galaxies

Ch 4 · Mirror stars and invisible galaxies
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007skaty Many visible stars orbit invisible companion stars in our galaxy.

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007skaty The Hubble Tension

Mirror world, mirror world, / pulling with gravity to match the cosmic speed.

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007skaty Cosmologists struggle to measure how fast the universe expands

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The life of a mirror star

007skaty Mirror matter uses its own electromagnetism to cool and collapse into dense objects, creating stars invisible to our optical telescopes.

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Detecting the dark through microlensing

007skaty Astronomers search for a parallel world of matter using gravitational microlensing.

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Starry Hide and Seek
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007skaty Find hidden stars to learn how parallel matter interacts through its own invisible forces.

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Fun Fact

Mirror Earths: If mirror matter is abundant, there could theoretically be "mirror planets" passing right through the Earth right now, sharing our gravity but completely undetectable to touch.

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Gossip

If you could name an invisible mirror star, what would you call it?

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Quiz

Why would a mirror star be completely invisible to a standard optical telescope?

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Gossip

Would you buy a telescope that could only detect dark matter?

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Quiz

How would a mirror star's lifetime compare to an ordinary star of the same mass?

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What is the astronomical term for when a massive invisible object bends and magnifies the light of a star behind it?

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Which space telescope is actively used to detect gravitational lensing events in our galaxy?

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What is a system called where two stars orbit around a common center of mass?

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How do astronomers detect the motion of a visible star orbiting an invisible companion?

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What is the 'Hubble tension' in modern cosmology?

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How does the mirror world model help resolve the Hubble tension?

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