Hubble Data Reveals First Globular Cluster Stellar Stream Beyond the Milky Way, Offering New Dark Matter Insights
Astronomers have detected the first stellar stream from a globular cluster outside the Milky Way, located in the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1, 115 million light-years away. This discovery, made using archival Hubble Space Telescope data, provides a novel method for mapping dark matter distribution in distant galaxies and confirms a long-held theoretical prediction.
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