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The spin of Milky Way’s galactic bar has slowed by about a quarter – Tech Explorist

The counterweight slowing this spin must be dark matter.

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Galaxy models have long anticipated that galactic bars slowed down by losing the angular momentum to their proposed dark haloes. This prediction was made almost 30 years ago, but astrophysicists have measured it for the first time.
It was found that the…

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