Science news articles about 'dense clumps'

... in the world to simulate the halo of dark matter that envelopes our galaxy, researchers found dense clumps and streams of the mysterious stuff lurking in the inner regions of the halo, in the same ...

... and collapses under its own gravity into dense clumps, forming cold, dense clouds of hydrogen where new ... 's high sensitivity, astronomers were able to detect clumps of cold gas four times fainter than ...

... is also significant. That finding means that existing models, which leave gravity out until very dense clumps have formed, would over-predict the rate of star formation in these clouds. The research ...

... , the space between stars is filled with patchy clouds of low-density gas. When a star encounters a relatively dense clump of this gas, the resulting flow produces a drag force on ...