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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Dark-Matter Galaxy Detected: Hidden Dwarf Lurks Nearby?

Dark-Matter Galaxy Detected: Hidden Dwarf Lurks Nearby?: "An entire galaxy may be lurking, unseen, just outside our own, scientists announced Thursday.

The invisibility of 'Galaxy X'—as the purported body has been dubbed—may be due less to its apparent status as a dwarf galaxy than to its murky location and its overwhelming amount of dark matter, astronomer Sukanya Chakrabarti speculates.

Detectable only by the effects of its gravitational pull, dark matter is an invisible material that scientists think makes up more than 80 percent of the mass in the universe."

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