Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a nearly invisible galaxy in the Perseus Cluster that appears to consist almost entirely of dark matter. Designated Candidate Dark ...

A team of astronomers has identified an extremely faint galaxy called CDG-2, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, where an estimated 99% of its total mass is made of invisible dark ...

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A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter was sitting 300 million light-years away, unnoticed until astronomers applied a detection technique never before used for galaxy discovery. The find could ...

Astronomers have identified a new ultra-diffuse galaxy that appears to defy one of the fundamental assumptions of modern cosmology: the presence of dark matter. The galaxy, dubbed FCC 224, lies at the ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think it is. Reading time 2 minutes Astronomers may have just stumbled across a ...

Astronomers have uncovered one of the most mysterious galaxies ever found — a dim, ghostly object called CDG-2 that is almost entirely made of dark matter. Located 300 million light-years away in the ...

While most galaxies blaze with billions of stars, a rare few are so faint they are barely detectable. These ...

You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you’ve been looking all along? Astronomers just had that moment on a cosmic scale. A galaxy so faint, so nearly invisible that no one ...