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Galaxy Sans Dark Matter

Posted by samzenpus on from the nothing-extra dept.

ChromaticDragon writes "Astronomers have crunched some numbers on a galaxy to discover that its rotation can be fully explained by the gravity of the observable matter — in effect, this galaxy seems to lack dark matter. This shouldn't come as a total surprise given that one of the stronger observations of Dark Matter was the Bullet Cluster where supposedly a good deal of Dark Matter and good old fashion regular matter had separated."

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  1. Back of the Galaxy by chill · · Score: 4, Funny

    All the Dark Matter is there, it just was told to move to the back of the galaxy.

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    1. Re:Back of the Galaxy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Of course not, he thought the "dark" matter was a rap superstar and the Galaxy was a limo.

  2. Re:Broken link? by RuBLed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Broken link? I don't think so..

    It says 404.. Not Found.. Pretty much in line with TFS...

  3. Blond matter by flyingfsck · · Score: 2, Funny

    'Let's see if "dark matter" is "more dense"' I dunno, usually blond matter is more dense...

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  4. Re:Another argument for variability of "constants" by Remusti · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your galaxy? Are you posting from NGC 4736, or just visiting Earth for a while?

    Either way, I'm sure you can see that Earth isn't worth invading, right? Right?

  5. Re:Fascinating! by IndustrialComplex · · Score: 2, Funny


    The cool thing is, if I were God, I could create an alternate universe in which I invented the finglonger.

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