Last week, astronomers announced the discovery of NGC 1052-DF2: a galaxy without dark matter. While most galaxies have much more dark matter than normal matter, this one, found nearby a giant ...

Roughly 65 million light-years away from Earth is a galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2 for short). But DF2 may as well be called F-U, because that’s what it’s saying to scientists who thought they ...

This large, fuzzy-looking galaxy is so diffuse that astronomers call it a “see-through” galaxy because they can clearly see distant galaxies behind it. The ghostly object, catalogued as NGC 1052-DF2, ...

Mass: About 60 billion suns’ worth. Location: The galaxy NGC1052–DF2, about 65 million light-years from Earth. An unusual galaxy is surprisingly lacking in dark matter, scientists report March 28 in ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Dark matter is thought to make up some 85 percent of the mass of the universe. Weird and invisible, dark matter has not ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

NGC1052-DF2, or 'DF2' for short, is 65 million light years away and one of a newly recognised family of 'ultra-diffuse' galaxies. They are thought of as 'ghostly' because they contain so few stars, ...