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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. Awesome by ShawnCplus · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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