A New Way to Measure Where the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Is
Updated: 2025-02-28 17:56:43
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in The Large Magellanic Cloud , a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way , causing the larger galaxy to âwobble,â imparting measurable accelerations to Milky Way pulsars . They , in turn , help chart the distribution of dark matter in the Galaxy . Courtesy : NASA . Posted on February 28, 2025 February 28, 2025 by Carolyn Collins Petersen A New Way to Measure Where the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Is Our Milky Way Galaxy is rich in dark matter . The problem is , we can’t see where it’s distributed because , well , it’s dark . We also don’t completely understand how it’s distributedâin clumps or what A team at the University of Alabama-Huntsville has figured out a way to