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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @11:00AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @11:00AM (#823554)

    Very first paper about MOND, section III, # 2.

    How is the internal dynamics within s affected by the external field g?

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/doi/10.1086/161130 [harvard.edu]

    There is nothing ad hoc about this.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 02 2019, @12:54PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 02 2019, @12:54PM (#823581) Journal
    I disagree. The paper was not when the theory was created.