Astronomers Discover a Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter

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Black Hole Star as a Little Red DotA ghostly ribbon of stars winding around a faint galaxy 115 million light-years away is giving astronomers a rare new way to trace one of the universe’s most elusive ingredients: dark matter. The thin structure surrounds UGC 9050-Dw1, an ultra-diffuse galaxy about 115 million light-years from Earth. Researchers say it is the first known globular [...]
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