On Thursday, Aug. 25, scientists announced the discovery of a galaxy with the same mass as the Milky Way but contains 99.99 percent dark matter, which is an elusive and undetected substance. Known as ...

A galaxy called Dragonfly 44 has caught scientists’ attention for a fascinating reason: it’s made almost completely of dark matter. Astronomers used two telescopes on Maunakea, Hawaii to study the dim ...

Most galaxies are dominated by dark matter. Our own galaxy is about 85% dark matter by mass. But recently a galaxy was discovered that is almost entirely dark matter. Known as Dragonfly 44, less than ...

A new strange UFO-like galaxy has been found by the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini North telescope. The researchers have been observing the galaxy for some time now and what they have found is ...

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The dark galaxy Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Only a faint smudge is visible. The image on the right is a long exposure with the Gemini telescope, revealing ...

The Milky Way is pictured in this September 28, 2014 handout photo from the International Space Station taken by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman. A dark matter version of the famous galaxy has been ...

Somewhere in the universe, hundreds of millions of light-years away, the Milky Way has a twin. This twin, called Dragonfly 44, is a bit smaller than the Milky Way — about 60,000 light-years across — ...

Powerful telescopes have revealed that a nearby galaxy is 99.99 percent dark matter. That number is a new record and the galaxy’s existence could help us learn more about the properties of dark matter ...

Astronomers have always been captivated by the cosmos, but few discoveries have been as perplexing as Dragonfly 44, a galaxy that defies accepted notions of space. Situated approximately 330 million ...

It's as if someone picked through the Milky Way, selecting just one star out of every 100 and throwing the rest away. 'That's something we never knew could happen' You can save this article by ...