A supermassive black hole, ULAS J1120+0641, outgrows its galaxy and disrupts the cosmic balance, revealing a mystery of the ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

(CN) — A nearby galaxy may be falling apart, and its larger neighbor could be the reason why. Astronomers studying the Small Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from Earth — ...

Astronomers have made a stunning discovery that challenges current understanding of dwarf galaxies: the tiny, nearby Segue 1 galaxy is bound not by a dark matter halo, but by an unusually large black ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

A nearby galaxy long treated as a stable cosmic reference is revealing a far more dynamic and turbulent history.

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The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...

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