Amazing Story of the 'Blob' Galaxy -- "This Thing is Astonishing; 'I've Never Seen that Before"
“I spent an hour just staring at this image,” lead researcher, astronomer Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University says as he recalls first seeing the Hubble image of NGC 1052-DF2, a galaxy completely void of dark matter. “This thing is astonishing, a gigantic blob so sparse that you see the galaxies behind it. It is literally a see-through galaxy. It’s so rare, particularly these days after so many years of Hubble, that you get an image of something and you say, ‘I’ve never seen that before.” No theory that predicts its existence The universe is not simply a place, as astronomers k...
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