Tag: Dark Matter

A ‘Dark’ Galaxy Discovered?

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The Milky Way Galaxy has about 26 associated satellite galaxies, which is strange to imagine, since we think of a galaxy as a massive collection of Billions of stars.  The dwarf galaxies are not easily visible since they are small, so they tend to blend in with the background of Milky Way stars that are much closer.   You might also notice from the above image that the dwarf galaxies are distant, lying beyond the 100,000 light year scope of our large spiral home.  Most of them likely originated in the turmoil of protogalaxy collisions that occurred billions of years...

Dark Matter may be more Massive than it already is!

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Dark Matter; Dark Energy; We basically use the term ‘dark’ as a cool sounding version of ‘We have no clue what this is.’ But Dark Matter is a better name than ‘We haven’t a clue’ Matter. Over the years, Astronomers have been trying to pinpoint what the stuff actually is that seems to permeate the universe and makes up 26.8% of the entire total energy-mass (Compare this to a paltry 4.9% of ordinary matter, ie the stuff we can see). But now, as per usual, theorists have come up with another possibility for the source of dark matter: moderately sized,...