The Smallest Galaxies in Our Universe Bring More About Dark Matter to Light (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

The Smallest Galaxies in Our Universe Bring More About Dark Matter to Light

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A graph indicating the strength of dark matter scattering (y-axis) versus the average relative velocity between dark matter and itself (x-axis). Error bars indicate galaxy estimates by previous studies, whereas the red regions shows results from Segue 1 ultra-fait dwarf galaxy.

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Hayashi et al.

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