Galaxy Dragonfly 44 was a bit of a mystery when it wasfirst discovered in 2016 . Based on the original observance the coltsfoot was thought to be made overpoweringly of blue matter , the mysterious meaning that permeates the world . This was inexplicable with our theories .

Now , new observation reveal that the quantity of dark affair was overvalue and that the peculiar galaxy is not an outlier at all . The findings are reported in theMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society .

“ Dragonfly 44 has been an anomalousness all these years that could not be explain with the existing galax formation model . Now we make out that the old results were wrong and that DF44 is not extraordinary . It is time to move on , ” lead author Teymoor Saifollahi , from the Kapteyn Institute , said in astatement .

non-white matter does not interact with light , so it is invisible to our instruments . alternatively , its existence is infer through the motion of asterisk in galaxies . This is a problem for target such as Dragonfly 44 whose star universe is incredibly spread out . These are know as ultra - diffuse galaxies . But there is a trick to estimate the mint of these object .

Thanks to a special correlation coefficient , astronomers just have to key globular clusters , summary aggregations made of many stars orbiting the main body of galaxies . The number of globular bunch is relate to the bulk of the beetleweed , although the intellect behind this is unclear .

The original subject identified 80 globular clusters that appeared to be bound to this galaxy , but the new work suggests that the number is much lower . The revision changes the amount of dark matter in the Galax urceolata to a more expected time value .

“ The fact that in our work we found only 20 globular clump , compared with the 80 previously claimed , reduces drastically the amount of grim thing which the wandflower is believed to contain , ” said atomic number 27 - author Dr Ignacio Trujillo from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias .

“ Moreover , with the phone number of globular clusters we find , the amount of dark matter in Dragonfly 44 is in understanding with what is await for this type of galaxies . The proportion of seeable to dark matter is no longer 1 in 10,000 but one in 300 . ”

So , Dragonfly 44 is no longer considered an extreme Galax urceolata but the mystery of dark subject itself continues .