We're Number One!

[billroper]

In this Guardian article on dark matter, researchers at Cambridge University are quoted as discovering that dark matter comes in chunks at least 1000 light years across of at least 30 million times the mass of the Sun. (Or maybe 30,000 solar masses -- I may have misread the abbreviation.)

However, they also discovered that the Milky Way is the largest galaxy in the local group, not Andromeda. So, as it says above, we're number one!

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[madfilkentist]

Astronomers have also found it has a "bar" of stars near its core. The biggest Milky Way Bar in the universe!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, biggest galaxy in the local group. Like that means anything. I mean sure, we're unimaginably huge and awesome, but unimaginably huge and awesome isn't really that impressive compared to some of those Coma-Virgo guys.

Get over yourself, puny human.