
What can we learn from dwarf galaxies?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How to Study Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Our milky way galaxy has kind of like a higher concentration Of dark matter than the rest of the other galaxies as well. Particle physicists particular up pointing their telescopes at these dwarf galaxies to try to see signals from the dark matter. Dwarf galaxies have very little other stuff. They're mostly dark matter. If you point your telescope at the heart of these dark matter galaxies these dwarf galaxies and you see gamma rays there Then you can be more certain that it comes from dark matter. The problem is the universe filled with gamma rays all sorts of other stuff generates gamma rays.
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