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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. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah.. guess what guys! We just discovered this awesome stuff called Dark Matter! Really? Yeah... Can we see it? um.... it doesn't exist in this galaxy. Sir, ask your mother. She likes having my dark matter in her mouth.