Mysterious galaxy without dark matter puzzles astronomers

The universe is expanding extremely fast.

Even the most elegant calculations suggest there isn’t sufficient matter in space to account for the speedy movement.

That’s wheredarkmatter comes in.

What if there’san invisible force making the cosmos spread out?

We can’t see it and we don’t quite know what it is.

But what if we canfeelit?

In the event that dark matter is real, experts think it could be ubiquitous.

Well, maybe not.

Astronomers say they’ve locatedsix galaxies that appear to have either very little or absolutely no dark matter.

The team will present its findings inMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

So it’s rather dim.

And if they’re correct?

The team offers up a few reasons for why AGC 114905 may not have any dark matter.

For instance, what if super large galaxies nearby somehow stripped it of the force?

All in all, dark matter might not be quite as potent as scientists once thought it would be.