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Canadian astronomer discovers Milky Way-size galaxy that’s 99.99% dark matter

September 2, 2016

Drag­on­fly 44 is almost entire­ly invis­i­ble, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to prof and UBC astron­o­my grad tells Metro, but it has the mass of our own galaxy.  Drag­on­fly 44 galaxy was ini­tial­ly spot­ted in the Coma con­stel­la­tion using Drag­on­fly Tele­pho­to Array, a mul­ti-lens tele­scope invent­ed by U of T’s Rober­to Abra­ham and Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum. Read more.