Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed something they had only modeled on paper: a galaxy that never quite turned on.
Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light on dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Dark matter ...
The object is considered a relic from the early universe because it was unable to accumulate enough gas to create stars. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the object is devoid of stars after it ...