Astronomers have found a galaxy that shouldn’t exist — one without dark matter.

Astronomers discover a weird galaxy that could change what we know about physics.

Galaxy NGC 1277 appears to contain no dark matter, which could raise some questions about the standard cosmological model.

NGC 1277 doesn’t seem to contain any dark matter, the invisible but influential stuff that outweighs the visible universe by almost six to one.

Only a tiny fraction of the universe consists of the stuff we can actually see: gas, dust, planets, stars, and galaxies. Another 27 percent or so is dark matter, which doesn’t seem to interact with ordinary matter or energy at all except for its gravitational pull. The rest is dark energy. FULL STORY from Inverse