" It challenges conventional understanding of dark matter and how dark matter should behave , " said arif babul of the university of victoria .

“它挑战到人类对暗物质的传统理解以及暗物质是如何表现的解释”，维多利亚大学的阿里夫-巴布尔说道。

Babul said the dark matter clump has recently been detected by other ground-based telescopes , leaving him confident that it does , in fact , exist .

巴布尔说，暗物质团最近已被其它的地面望远镜所侦测到，这使他相信，它确确实实是存在的。

That prompted mr. babul and his colleagues at the university of california davis and san francisco state university to turn to nasa 's hubble space telescope , expecting - hoping , in fact - to learn their initial discovery was incorrect .

巴布尔先生和他的加州戴维斯大学的同事、以及旧金山州立大学的同事立刻转而使用美国宇航局的哈勃太空望远镜，期待着事实上也希望认为他们最初的发现是错误的。

If the current theories are wrong , mr. babul said it could change everything from how scientists explain the formation of galaxies - a process that depends entirely on the existence of dark matter - to where gamma rays come from .

巴布尔说，如果目前的理论是错误的，那么，从科学家所解释的星系形成的方式（这一过程完全取决于暗物质的存在），到伽玛射线是从哪里来的，这一切都得改变。