Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Seeing the invisible - first dark galaxy discovered?

"A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter -- the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that rotates like a galaxy, but contains no stars. Without any stars to give light, it could only be found using radio telescopes."

2 comments:

  1. My thoughts exactly. Has someone ever written about dark matter from an exobiological/ETI point of view?

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  2. Anonymous11:52 AM

    Way cool.
    --WMB

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