![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920090612im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field "Missing Mass" Found in Recycled Dwarf Galaxies
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May 10, 2007
![News thumbnail](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920090612im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/composite_l.jpg) | Astronomers studying dwarf galaxies formed from the debris of a collision of larger galaxies found the dwarfs much more massive than expected, and think the additional material is "missing mass" that theorists said should not be present in this kind of dwarf galaxy. Full story |
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