A team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope studied a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud and found it to be a new type of astronomical object—a failed galaxy that never produced stars. Nicknamed Cloud-9, it is a fossil remnant from the early days of the universe.
Scientists have long sought evidence of such a phantom object. But only when they turned Hubble’s sharp vision toward Cloud-9 could they confirm its starless nature—a finding that furthers the understanding of galaxy formation, the early universe, and the nature of dark matter itself: https://news.stsci.edu/4bdj2Ov
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Astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope have announced the identification of Cloud-9, a starless cosmic cloud dominated by dark matter located 14 million light-years away, a discovery that expands our understanding of the invisible structures of the Universe.
Located near the spiral galaxy Messier 94, Cloud-9 represents the first observational confirmation of an object classified as RELHIC, which until then was only theoretical.
RELHICs are clouds of neutral hydrogen that failed to form stars due to a lack of mass or density, despite the significant presence of dark matter.
NASA, ESA, VLA, Gagandeep Anand (STScI), Alejandro Benitez-Llambay (University of Milan-Bicocca)
first off, ive mentioned in a previous post that i thought generation outlaws was dumb and it should be The Outcasts instead (close enough that theyre affiliated with the Outlaws but still theyre own team) so
my (hot take) on the outcasts
members: (ngl i sorta picked and choose from the original team but its my au im allowed to)
*some of these characters didnt have first names or last names so i picked what i thought just sounded nice
Sasha Sloan or (Sloan-Todd) aka Scarlett
Co-Team Leader, along with Clara
Hated the others at first, thought she was being replaced
Some daddy-daughter time with Jason fixed that right up
and then she became best friends with Clara
and they teamed up to ruin jasons life
the first one Jason took in
Clara Bains (again or Bains-Todd, Jason adopted all of these fucks) aka Cloud-9
Co-Team Leader, along with Sasha
Takes after Jason so much its uncanny
didnt know how to use makeup at first
looked like a drunk raccoon
so jason taught her
has trouble staying on the ground
likes to fly with kori
Dani Jones (-Todd) aka DNA.
canonly NB
sometimes does some hands on work but prefers to be a support role like Oracle
speaking of oracle, they sometimes hack her setup to make her mad
the most artistic
likes classics like jason does
jason likes to refer to them as his demonic spawn
“i hate you all equally”
doodles ‘i love my family” all over gotham
Devon Reyes (-Todd) aka Devour
trans soft boy
still chaotic but like a gentler chaotic
Devon was picked because it was close to Devour
No one knows his dead name
learns from roy how to make cool new gadgets for his team
lian will also help with inventing things
reads with jason and dani but prefers sci-fi books
Lian Harper-Todd aka Speedy
blessed angel child
Jade gets weekends so Speedy is always gone on weekend missions
Learns posions from Jade and archery from Roy
known for her posion arrows
once dyed her hair with a white streak so she could resemble all her parents
when she upgrades from speedy, she chooses Viper
cusses like jason
Ophelia Todd (@nac-nic's oc but they have given permission to use in fanworks and i adore her)
in this au its actually Todd-Wilson
bc Lex Luthor went back to his dna stealing clone making days but this time it was with Jason Todd’s and Rose Wilson’s DNA. When Jason and Rose found out about her existence (through Slade or Lena Luthor), the Outlaws stormed one of Luthor’s bases and found Clara, Dani, Devon also.
youngest member of the Outcasts (Jason doesn’t let his kids on the streets until 16 so shes more a mascot)
but i imagine her viligante name to be similar to her parents so like
renegade? red ravager? rebel? idk im not the best at naming things
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Cloud-9, la galassia senza stelle che sta rivoluzionando l’astronomia con la materia oscura
Chiamata "Cloud-9", questa galassia è un oggetto quasi spettrale, distante circa 14 milioni di anni luce dalla Terra e larga poco meno di 5.000 anni luce. Il suo aspetto – o meglio, la sua quasi totale mancanza di luce – è dovuto a una composizione dominata dalla materia oscura, una sostanza misteriosa che non emette né assorbe luce, ma che esercita una forza gravitazionale. Cloud-9 potrebbe quindi rappresentare una nuova classe di oggetti cosmici, definiti RELHIC (Reionization Limited HI Clouds), costituiti principalmente da materia oscura e idrogeno neutro.
Come è stata scoperta una galassia invisibile e perché conta
Individuare una galassia che praticamente non “brilla” è tutt’altro che semplice. Il team internazionale di ricerca, con esperti come Alejandro Benítez-Llambay dell’Università di Milano Bicocca, ha dovuto affidarsi a potenti radiotelescopi per captare il segnale dell’**idrogeno neutro**, una forma di idrogeno che non emette luce visibile ma si rivela nelle onde radio. Senza questi strumenti, Cloud-9 sarebbe rimasta completamente nascosta, invisibile anche ai telescopi ottici più avanzati.
Ma perché questa scoperta è così importante? Perché studiare una galassia senza stelle ci offre una finestra senza precedenti sulle fasi iniziali della formazione stellare e sull’evoluzione delle galassie stesse. Cloud-9 è un laboratorio naturale per capire come la materia oscura interagisce con il gas e quali siano i processi che, in passato, hanno permesso alle galassie di accendersi di stelle. In sostanza, questa “galassia fantasma” potrebbe svelarci segreti fondamentali sull’architettura nascosta dell’universo e sui meccanismi che hanno plasmato la nostra galassia e le altre.
Insomma, Cloud-9 non è solo una curiosità cosmica, ma una svolta nelle nostre conoscenze astronomiche. Una galassia che sfida le regole, che sembra quasi un fantasma, e che invece potrebbe rivelarsi la chiave per comprendere meglio la natura della materia oscura e l’alchimia che porta alla nascita delle stelle. E chissà, forse nei prossimi anni sentiremo parlare sempre più spesso di questa enigmatica “nuvola” che ha fatto tremare le certezze degli astronomi.
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