Pitch black: Cosmic clumps cast the darkest shadows
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 04:31
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. Infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of these blackest-of-black regions paradoxically light the way to understanding how the brightest stars form.