A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

The Segue 1, referred to as the "least chemically evolved galaxy known," could hint at the universe's very first stars, according to researchers who recently studied the tiny galaxy. Among all known ...

The question is a throwback to the ancient Greeks, who first came up with the notion that everything is composed of tiny atoms. Yet here we sit, still asking that question. When our telescopes survey ...