Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Seeing the invisible - first dark galaxy discovered?

"A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter -- the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that rotates like a galaxy, but contains no stars. Without any stars to give light, it could only be found using radio telescopes."

3 comments:

Bsti said...

the imagination runs wild with what kind of beings might reside there......

Mac said...

My thoughts exactly. Has someone ever written about dark matter from an exobiological/ETI point of view?

W.M. Bear said...

Way cool.
--WMB