Dwarf galaxy
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While most stars are content with their place, hypervelocity stars are zipping through the universe fast enough to leave their home galaxy. It’s a mystery how they reached such speeds and where they came from. Now, astronomers from the University of Cambridge believe they’ve found the answers.
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A team of astronomers has discovered a faint blue dwarf galaxy nicknamed Leoncino or the "little lion," that could be used as a tool to test the Big Bang Theory.
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NASA scientists are hoping to unravel the evolutionary and environmental impact of celestial giants by observing an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), sitting 100 million light years away in the spiral arm of galaxy NGC 2276.
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M60-UCD1, a galaxy approximately 54 million light years from our solar system, has been found to contain a black hole with a mass equivalent to 21 million times that of our own sun and whose presence may suggest that such enormous black holes could be more common than previously thought.