Darth Vader may have not had much use for dark matter, but Nicolas Garvito-Camargo of the University of Arizona, who recently led the study, coauthor Rohan Naidu of Harvard, and their colleagues believe it could be the reason that the LMC will eventually crash into the Milky Way—something the Death Star never got to do. “Stars in the outer regions of the galaxy were observed moving faster than expected given the amount of mass observed in the stars,’ Garvito-Camargo told SYFY WIRE. “This was one of the first pieces of evidence that there should be more mass in the galaxy than what is observed.”