globular cluster
noun
: any of various approximately spherical clusters of gravitationally associated stars that typically populate galactic halos
called also globular
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The researchers propose that these binaries likely form in crowded regions like globular clusters, where many stars and black holes interact.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
Streams from still-surviving globular clusters, like those identified in the new study, are much rarer and especially useful because astronomers can compare the stream directly with its parent cluster.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
This hunch was borne out when the astronomers found that, even though the globular clusters were languishing in an empty stretch of Perseus, they were surrounded by a halo of glowing matter — a telltale sign of a galaxy.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
Those galaxies could have some globular clusters around them, but their central regions would be almost completely devoid of stars, being anchored instead by nearly 100% dark matter.
—Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
Streams from still-surviving globular clusters, like those identified in the new study, are much rarer and especially useful because astronomers can compare the stream directly with its parent cluster.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
This hunch was borne out when the astronomers found that, even though the globular clusters were languishing in an empty stretch of Perseus, they were surrounded by a halo of glowing matter — a telltale sign of a galaxy.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
Those galaxies could have some globular clusters around them, but their central regions would be almost completely devoid of stars, being anchored instead by nearly 100% dark matter.
—Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
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