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Nearly 50 'ghost galaxies' emerge around three hosts, challenging dwarf galaxy counts

Nearly 50 'ghost galaxies' emerge around three hosts, challenging dwarf galaxy countsWorldPing

Dwarf galaxies—with a mass equal to about a billion suns, but often considerably less—are the most abundant in the universe. However, because of their low luminosity, they are very difficult to detect.

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