A Galaxy Without Dark Matter

Update:The study's authors have provided us with a link to afree .pdf version of the full paper!In a revolutionary development, a team of astronomers has discovered that a faint smudge of a galaxy called NGC1052-DF2 (or DF2, for short) may have no dark matter at all; the group's results show that DF2 has less dark matter than predicted by a factor of at least 400. That's a big deal. Astronomers have never seen a galaxy like this before, and it raises intriguing questions about galaxies and dark ...