Hubble has uncovered a new type of astronomical object ????

0 Views

  • Thanks! Share it with your friends!

    You disliked this video. Thanks for the feedback!

UFONews
Published
A starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud that is considered a 'relic' or remnant of early galaxy formation.

Nicknamed 'Cloud-9,' this is the first confirmed detection of such an object in the Universe. For years, scientists have been looking for evidence of such a phantom object, which was proposed in theory. But only when they turned Hubble toward the cloud were they able to confirm that it is indeed starless.

The object is called a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud, or 'RELHIC.' The term 'H I' refers to neutral hydrogen, and 'RELHIC' describes a natal hydrogen cloud from the Universe’s early days, a fossil leftover that has not formed stars RELHICs are thought to be dark matter clouds that were not able to accumulate enough gas to form stars.

Cloud-9 suggests the existence of many other small, dark matter-dominated structures in the Universe – other failed galaxies. This discovery provides new insights into the dark components of the Universe that are difficult to study through traditional observations, which focus on bright objects like stars and galaxies.

???? European Space Agency (ESA)
???? NASA, ESA. G. Anand (STScI), and A. Benitez-Llambay (Univ. of Milan-Bicocca); Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI), CC BY 4.0.

#ESA #Hubble #Space
Category
Deep Space
Tags
ESA, European Space Agency, Hubble Space Telescope
Commenting disabled.