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  • The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved

    10/13/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 37 replies
    phys.org ^ | October 13, 2020 | by Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    Image and amplification (in color) of the ultra-diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 44 taken with the Hubble space telescope. Credit: Teymoor Saifollahi and NASA/HST. ============================================================================= At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have measure how much dark matter there is around galaxies, and have found that it varies between 10 and 300 times the quantity of visible matter. However, a few years ago, the discovery of a very diffuse object, named Dragonfly 44, changed this view. It was found that this galaxy has 10,000 times more...