For years, astronomers have worried about how to explain why the Milky Way has fewer satellite galaxies than the standard dark matter model predicts. This is called the "missing satellites problem."
  • btaf45@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    If the distribution of those nine satellite galaxies across the entire Milky Way is similar to what was found in the footprint captured by the HSC-SSP, the research team calculates that there actually may be closer to 500 satellite galaxies

    WTF? I was thinking there were around a dozen or so.

    • teft@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      They solved one conundrum just to find another. Too few dwarfs then too many.