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These Dwarf Galaxies Seem to Be Devoid of Dark Matter, And It Doesn't Make Sense

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Astronomers find dwarf galaxies with distorted, perturbed shapes. This is odd, especially if they should be surrounded by dark matter halos. The distorted shapes of the dwarf galaxies seen by the team indicate a problem with our understanding of dark matter. It suggests Newton's law of universal gravitation should be modified to explain why misshapen galaxies look the way they do.

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These Dwarf Galaxies Seem to Be Devoid of Dark Matter, And It Doesn't Make Sense

Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious 'stuff' permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies.

2 years ago·Australia

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