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Galaxy made of 99.99% dark matter to light

Dragonfly 44 is only a paltry fraction of ‘normal’ matter.

The dark galaxy Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy taken with the Gemini North telescope using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph. The close-up on the right is from the same very deep image, revealing the large, elongated galaxy, and halo of spherical clusters of stars around the galaxy’s core, similar to the halo that surrounds our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: PIETER VAN DOKKUM / ROBERTO ABRAHAM / GEMINI / SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY