Centaurus A (IMAGE)

University of California - Irvine

Centaurus A

Caption

Centaurus A, an elliptical galaxy 13 million light-years from Earth, hosts a group of dwarf satellite galaxies co-rotating in a narrow disk, a distribution not predicted by dark-matter-influenced cosmological models.

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Christian Wolf and the SkyMapper team / Australian National University

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