DarkMatter in the Hood!

[Dancing David]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080918170630.htm

The galaxy, called Segue 1, is one of about two dozen small satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy. The ultra-faint galaxy is a billion times less bright than the Milky Way, according to the team’s results, to be published in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). But despite its small number of visible stars, Segue 1 is nearly a thousand times more massive than it appears, meaning most of its mass must come from dark matter.

 

[Dancing David]

This is cool as well:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915210506.htm

Milky Way has dark matter disk.

 

[sol invictus]

http://arxivblog.com/?p=599