Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity needed to keep itself from scattering into space. Like other dwarf galaxies, it ...

Both images of Segue 1show that the galaxy is so barren, it’s hard to classify it as one (Image Credit: MIT) There’s something fascinating about Segue 1, a galaxy first noticed in 2006 by the Sloan ...

In the old days, when a company had excess inventory or customer returns, the call went out to the junk man to haul the stuff away. But enterprising sorts have discovered there is money in the ...

Sometimes big things come in small packages, or so the saying goes. Such is the case with Segue 2, the name of a tiny galaxy near our own that is being called the "most lightweight" ever discovered.