“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 keep discovering, it’s an unfolding dynamic and developmental process –it’s a story. In 2918, an international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories for the first time, uncovered a galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood that is missing most if not all of its dark matter. A second galaxy missing dark matter was found in the NGC 1052 Gro