Friday, 2 July 2021

'Lonely cloud' bigger than Milky Way found in a galaxy 'no-man's land'

'Lonely cloud' bigger than Milky Way found in a galaxy 'no-man's land'

A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in a "no-man's land" for galaxies. The so-called orphan or lonely cloud is full of hot gas with temperatures of 10,000-10,000,000 degrees Kelvin (K) and a total mass 10 billion times the mass of the sun. That makes it larger than the mass of small galaxies.

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