Scientists are puzzled by an"impossible" galaxy that doesn't appear to have the fuel it needs to be growing.
The dwarf galaxy, NGC 6789, is located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth, in an empty region known as the Local Void, and was first described in 1883. However, scientists didn't realize the galaxy was still forming new stars until recently. Observations over the past couple of decades indicate that about 4% of its stellar mass was born in the past 600 million years. But given the dearth of star-forming material or even other galaxies in the region, researchers were baffled as to how it could still be birthing stars.
