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Milky Way May Have Dark Matter Satellite Galaxies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whirling-and-twirling dept.

rubycodez writes "Berkeley astronomer Sukanya Chakrabarti has detected perturbations in the gases surrounding our Milky Way and concludes there is a satellite 'Galaxy X' 250,000 light years away that is mostly dark matter, but that may contain dwarf stars visible in infrared. She expects many more such dark matter satellites to the Milky Way to be discovered using her technique."

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  1. Re:Mark my words by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One day we'll find out why we're having to explain shit with "dark matter", and the stupid concept will be laughed at like the Luminiferous aether is now.

    Yeah, like neutrinos and X-rays and all that other weird shit people made up to explain problems away.

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