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 ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

NASA scientists have identified what they describe as the universe's first confirmed example of a starless, gas-rich object ...

Across the observable universe, galaxies appear as luminous islands of stars and gas, anchored by invisible frameworks of ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed ...

A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless, gas-rich, ...

Broaches that once adorned Sunday coats, cufflinks from an era when men regularly wore French cuffs, and beaded necklaces that could have graced flappers during the Jazz Age—each piece represents not ...

Nicknamed Cloud-9, this ethereal object is the first confirmed example of a long-predicted “failed galaxy”—a relic from the ...

Astronomers have identified Cloud 9, a nearby dark matter halo filled with gas but no stars. The discovery supports key predictions about how galaxies form and why some never do.