Tagged: Dwarf galaxies

– Astronomers from the University of Portsmouth have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent stars forming in some smaller galaxies. These giant black holes are over a million times more massive than the sun and sit in the center of galaxies sending out powerful...

Using the Subaru Telescope atop Maunakea, researchers have identified 11 dwarf galaxies and two star-containing halos in the outer region of a large spiral galaxy 25 million light-years away from Earth. Stellar halos are spherical populations of stars and globular clusters thought to surround most...