David Buote led a new study of the X-ray emission in the compact elliptical galaxy Mrk 1216, in which we found that the galaxy’s dark matter halo is unusually concentrated. You can find the Chandra Observatory press release here, and links to the published paper are here.
![](https://sites.uci.edu/barth/files/2019/07/mrk1216-624x318.jpg)