The object is considered a "failed galaxy" from the early universe that did not form stars. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped confirm the discovery. The discovery provides a rare opportunity to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the ...

Well, maybe this newly discovered object should be called a failed galaxy… it has some of the hallmarks of galaxies, dark matter, and gas, namely, but it did fail to form any stars. Meet Cloud-9.

How do you find a galaxy that never formed? The standard cosmological model predicts the existence of “failed” galaxies — clumps of dark matter that captured gas but never birthed a star. Because they ...

Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light on dark matter, one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Dark matter ...

A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the distant universe. The starless cloud composed of dark matter, ...

A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the distant universe. Here's everything to know about Cloud-9, and how ...

The object is considered a relic from the early universe because it was unable to accumulate enough gas to create stars. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the object is devoid of stars after it ...