🌟🔭 Hubble’s cosmic surprise! First-ever “RELHIC” spotted—a starless dark matter cloud bubbling with gas, a relic from the universe’s infancy defying galaxy formation rules. A new astronomical oddity unlocking early secrets! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/a-new-type-of-astronomical-object-hubble-telescope-confirms-first-detection-of-a-relic-unlike-anything-astronomers-have-seen/
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#ESA:
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Cloud-9: a new celestial object found by Hubble
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".. uncovered a new type of astronomical object – 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."
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble
5.1.2026
#ACS #Astronomie #Cloud9 #HST #Hubble #hydrogen #M94 #RELHIC #Wasserstoff #Weltraumteleskop
A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object – 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.
"The First #RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a #StarlessGasCloud", Anand+2025, #ApJL, 993, L55
#FAST + #VLA + #GBT : HI mass 10^6 M_\odot
#HST /ACS: stellar mass below 10^{3.5--4} M_\odot
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584
https://arXiv.org/abs/2508.20157
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