Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

The researchers describe Cloud-9 as a failed galaxy, a "relic" or remnant of the processes that gave rise to early galaxies. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay suggested that the ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't ...