Drooid Logo
Back to today’s briefing

Story perspectives

CDG-2 Galaxy: 99% Dark Matter Revealed by Telescopes

2/21/2026

49 7 Full Breakdown

1 of 1

Story summary
  • CDG-2, a galaxy in the Perseus cluster, is about 99% dark matter and 1% visible material.
  • It lies roughly 245 million light-years from Earth and was identified by the Hubble, Euclid, and Subaru telescopes.
  • CDG-2's luminosity equals six million Sun-like stars, with 16% of light from four globular clusters.
  • Interacting with nearby galaxies may have stripped the galaxy of much normal matter, informing dark-matter studies.