According to reports, it has been revealed in a study that galaxies in a cluster could have up to 100 times more dark matter than visible matter. The cluster is said to be approximately 300 million light years from Earth.

According to the researchers from the University of Western Australia, galaxies have fallen into the Coma Cluster, among the largest structures in the Universe. Here, gravity binds thousands of galaxies together.

As per reports, dark matter cannot be observed directly, however it is believed to make up nearly 84% of the matter in the Universe.

According to International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research PhD student Cameron Yozin, who led the study, for the first time the paper shows that a few galaxies, which have fallen into the cluster could possibly have much more dark matter than visible matter.

According to Yozin, the galaxies studied by him in the Coma Cluster are almost the same size as Milky Way, however it consists of just 1% of the stars.

According to him, it appears that the galaxies don’t make new stars anymore after they first plunged into the cluster between seven and ten billion years ago. And they have been dead since that time, so astrophysicists have called them "failed" galaxies.

Yozin created computer simulations in order to model formation of the galaxies into what is observed now. Astronomers usually think that approximately 27% of the known universe is made up of dark matter. ICRAR told that the Coma Cluster is said to be among the largest known structures in the universe.