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HanYuan Zhang

1 articles · 5 co-authors · latest: 2026-07-06

Flattened Darkness: Stellar Streams Outline Invisible Halos

Using the STRRINGS catalog of 32 stellar streams, astronomers have for the first time measured the population distribution of dark matter halo shapes beyond the Local Group. Applying Bayesian analysis, they found that for the 17 most reliable streams, the median flattening is about 0.72 — meaning th
arXiv:2607.05510v1 · 2026-07-06