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Buttons840 • yesterday at 10:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Isn't that weird?

Visually galaxies are quite varied, which implies, to me, they have a lot of variability in visible matter. Why wouldn't their supposed dark matter vary too?


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solyin • today at 1:29 AM

They do! In particular, there are three of them out there that match expectations and thus have little/no dark matter! NGC 1052-DF2 (2018) NGC 1052-DF4 (2019) and AGC 114905 (2022)! Apparently there's another being discussed in a 2026 paper!