A recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics examines how a distant galaxy potentially doesn’t possess dark matter, a mysterious substance that researchers hypothesize could comprise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who has ever missed a step running down the stairs and felt the conspicuous absence of ...

Figure 2: The colour distribution of clusters in NGC 1277 compared with that of the composite cluster system. Figure 3: The fraction of blue clusters in galaxies of a given stellar mass. Figure 4: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows a conventional galaxy wrapped in a halo of dark matter and NGC 1277 which displays a lack of this mysterious ...

NGC 1277's black hole turns this theory on its head, taking up 14 percent of its galaxy's mass. Karl Gebhardt from UT Austin commented on the significance of the discovery, stating that “it leads us ...

March 13 (UPI) --New analysis of a "relic galaxy" promises insights into the nature of the early universe. Formed some 12 billion years ago, the NGC 1277 galaxy birthed all of its stars within a span ...

Astronomers have found a galaxy that shouldn’t exist — one without dark matter. Enormous galaxy NGC 1277 was supposed to help Sebastién Comerón of the University of La Laguna and the Instituto de ...

A galaxy just over 230 million light-years away in the nearby Perseus cluster looks as if it was snatched from the dawn of time and delivered to our galactic neighborhood, new observations reveal. The ...