'Cloud-9' is a newly discovered celestial object. It could help solve a cosmic mystery

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Hubble telescope spots 'failed' starless galaxy known as Cloud 9

Astronomers say they have identified a new type of astronomical object that challenges traditional ideas about how galaxies ...

Meet ‘Cloud-9,’ a New Type of Object That Shows What a Failed Galaxy Looks Like

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...
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Mysterious 'Cloud-9' May Be The Dark-Matter Bones of a Failed Galaxy

It's been named Cloud-9, and it's a mysterious object about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94, which ...
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Why not finding stars has astronomers on Cloud-9

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...
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NASA's Hubble Finds 'Cloud-9' — the First Confirmed Detection of a Failed Galaxy

NASA's Hubble Telescope captured something unusual and came up with an accurate nickname. The newly discovered astronomical ...

Cloud 9 discovered by NASA scientists in extraordinary breakthrough

NASA's Hubble telescope has discovered Cloud-9, the first confirmed starless dark matter cloud from the early universe ...

NASA's Hubble finds 'Cloud-9', scientists call it 'window into dark universe': What's so special about it?

Cloud-9 is located 14 million light-years from Earth, NASA said as it shared details of it's newest discovery.