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 ...
London: Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unearthed a "relic galaxy" in the Milky Way's backyard. The galaxy NGC 1277, lies near the centre of the Perseus cluster of over 1,000 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A galaxy with an exceptionally bright, stretched-out disk of light around it Our picture of cosmic evolution could be thrown into ...
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 ...
A rare galaxy stuck in a state of arrested development is providing scientists with a unique window into the early days of the universe. The unusual cosmic region has remained frozen for the past 10 ...
A team of scientists, led by the researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) Sebastién Comerón, has found that the galaxy NGC 1277 does not contain dark matter. This is the first time ...