A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Globular clusters like this one, Omega Centauri, are very dense groupings of up to a million stars ... [+] in a sphere ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/319332 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/319332 ABSTRACT We examine the luminosity levels of the main‐sequence turnoffs, M ...

Globular cluster in Dorado: This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.

THE 200 inch telescope on Palomar Mountain has recently been used for a detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the globular clusters associated with the Andromeda nebula. This ...

ABSTRACT The strengths of the CN, NH, and CH bands in the spectra of Population II red giants are discussed based on observations of a sample of both globular cluster and field giants. We confirm an ...

As a result, they detected a stellar stream, shells and a globular cluster in the halo of this galaxy. Their findings were reported Jan. 7 on the pre-print server arXiv. NGC 300 (also known as ...

Balbinot, Gaia, DECaLS-DESI ... that populations of black holes could exist in the central regions of globular clusters, and since gravitational interactions with black holes are known to send ...