The discovery suggests that many such previously undetected stars permeate what had been thought to be
dark spaces between galaxies, forming an interconnected sea of stars.
After a half - century - long hunt, astronomers think they have finally detected rogue star clusters that roam the vast
dark spaces between galaxies.
Not exact matches
Last year, «
dark stars» were discovered suspended in
space between the Milky Way and its satellite
galaxies.
According to theory, the bulk of the matter in the universe consists of large,
dark filaments of gas in the vast empty
space between galaxy clusters.
In about 100 billion years, as future humans are enjoying an extended stay near Proxima Centauri, some physicists like Starkman believe that
dark energy will drastically stretch out the vast amounts of empty
space between the Milky Way and other
galaxies, creating an impassable gulf
between them.
Dark matter filaments bridge the
space between galaxies in this false colour map.
«However, as we penetrate deeper into the Universe, and hence back to earlier times, the
space between galaxies contains an increasing number of
dark clouds of hydrogen which absorb this signal.»
The
space between galaxies is a cold and
dark place filled only with a filamentous haze of hydrogen atoms left over from the Big Bang.