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Aug022011

Shadowy Galaxy Has Most Dark Matter Than Any Other Known Galaxy

"Astronomers have discovered a galaxy harboring more dark matter than any seen before."

"The galaxy is a small group of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the Milky Way called Segue 1. But while most of those stars appear to have roughly the mass of the sun, the galaxy as a whole weighs 600,000 times the mass of the sun. That means the normal matter stars are vastly outweighed by dark matter."

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