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Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size ... Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth. That means we are seeing the galaxy as it was only ...