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Astronomers Solve Mystery of a Galaxy Containing 99.99% Dark Matter – ScienceAlert
The mystery of a galaxy that shouldn’t have existed could now have a solution. Dragonfly 44, a faint galaxy that was found in 2016 to consist of 99.99 percent d…
The mystery of a galaxy that shouldn’t have existed could now have a solution. Dragonfly 44, a faint galaxy that was found in 2016 to consist of 99.99 percent dark matter, has been closely re-examined, revealing a lower and more normal proportion of dark matter.
This would mean that we don’t have to revise our models of galaxy formation to try to figure out how they could have produced such an extreme outlier – everything is behaving completely normally, the researchers said.
“Dragonfly 44 (DF…
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