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I don’t work in cosmology and can’t vouch for the site, but according to [0] the dark matter was essentially stolen by neighboring galaxies through a process ca
by matt123456789 5y ago
I don’t work in cosmology and can’t vouch for the site, but according to [0] the dark matter was essentially stolen by neighboring galaxies through a process called tidal disruption.
[0] http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/tidal-stripping-lack-dark-matter-ultra-diffuse-galaxy-ngc-1052-df4-09096.html http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/tidal-stripping-lack-dark-...
- ncmncm 5y agoTFA explains there are no plausible candidate galaxies.
- matt123456789 5y agoOh I see. The sci-news article is talking about the -DF4 galaxy, but the subject of the esahubble article is the -DF2 galaxy.
- matt123456789 5y agoYou’re talking about the original link from esahubble? It doesn’t mention that at all. That’s why I went digging.