The cloud was spotted by an international research team using Chinas huge FAST radio telescope.
But the recently spotted gas cloud is different: it spins.
Ergo, a dark galaxy.
The Milky Way above ESO’s Paranal Observatory.Photo: ESO/P. Horálek
That puts the cloud comfortably within the Local Group, our galactic neighborhood.
But what gives AC G185.011.5 its nifty label of dark galaxy is its dark matter content.
You know, if potatoes were stars.
If the candidate dark galaxy is confirmed as such, it could rewrite how we think about galaxy formation.
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