Researchers report that ASASSN-24fw dimmed for nine months due to a ringed companion, likely a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter, based on observations published by Universe Today and the Royal ...

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New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...

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