NGC 1277's black hole turns this theory on its head, taking up 14 percent of its galaxy's mass. Karl Gebhardt from UT Austin commented on the significance of the discovery, stating that “it leads us ...

A recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics examines how a distant galaxy potentially doesn’t possess dark matter, a mysterious substance that researchers hypothesize could comprise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who has ever missed a step running down the stairs and felt the conspicuous absence of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows a conventional galaxy wrapped in a halo of dark matter and NGC 1277 which displays a lack of this mysterious ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the most massive black hole ever known in a small galaxy about 250 million light-years from Earth, scientists say. The supermassive black hole has a mass ...

Astronomers are hunting down the cause of a nearby galaxy's "arrested development" with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The odd galaxy, called NGC 1277, doesn't appear to have evolved much ...

Astronomers have found a galaxy that shouldn’t exist — one without dark matter. Enormous galaxy NGC 1277 was supposed to help Sebastién Comerón of the University of La Laguna and the Instituto de ...

March 13 (UPI) --New analysis of a "relic galaxy" promises insights into the nature of the early universe. Formed some 12 billion years ago, the NGC 1277 galaxy birthed all of its stars within a span ...