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posted by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @09:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the gaaarlaktus dept.

From New Atlas:

Some of the strongest evidence for dark matter to date has been discovered – and ironically, that's thanks to its absence. In a pair of studies published this week, astronomers have shed new light on dark matter through close observation of a galaxy previously found to have very little of the stuff, while the same team found a new example of a similar oddball galaxy.

It's generally believed that galaxies are held together through the gravitational influence of clumps of dark matter, so to find a galaxy with little to no dark matter was a surprise. And while it might sound like a strike against the theory, it actually ends up supporting it.

A Second Galaxy Missing Dark Matter in the NGC 1052 Group (DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0d92) (DX)

Still Missing Dark Matter: KCWI High-resolution Stellar Kinematics of NGC1052-DF2 (DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e8c) (DX)


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  • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday April 01 2019, @10:12PM (2 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 01 2019, @10:12PM (#823292) Journal

    It's so wrong when an AC wins a thread this early.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @10:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @10:36PM (#823298)

    It's so wrong when an AC wins a thread this early.

    I could have posted as logged in, but where's the fun in that?

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 02 2019, @08:47AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @08:47AM (#823521) Journal

      At least Gaaaaark is happy, now that Dark Matter has been banished to the wastebin of history . . . oh, what? It hasn't? Oh, crap, Gaaark is not going to be happy about this.

        Science, it is just too damned uncertain and hard! I mean, what are we to believe? Will not someone just tell us what to believe? Oh, thank you, Alex Jones!