Astronomers Can’t Explain Why This New Galaxy Has Hardly Any Dark Matter

Astronomers Can’t Explain Why This New Galaxy Has Hardly Any Dark Matter

  • March 29, 2018
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Astronomers Can’t Explain Why This New Galaxy Has Hardly Any Dark Matter

It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Cosmologists haven’t directly observed the stuff, but based on measurements of baryonic matter—the type we can see—it is thought that about 27 percent of the universe is made up of dark matter.

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