Scientists were startled with what they were able to find when they measured the light of far away galaxies that were formed three billion years after the big bang. They were surprised to find practically little to nothing at all.

Pieter van Dokkum and his team of scientists did their little measuring endeavor at Yale University. They focused on galaxies that had the same mass as the Milky Way, but were ten times smaller. They weren't able to find anything. No mini-galaxies.

They tried to look further into the galaxies surrounding the area but were not able to locate or find any of the galaxies that were that small. They're not entirely sure what has happened to these mini-galaxies.

Simon White of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Graching Germany said that, "this is a very a puzzling result" because "galaxies cannot disappear." Well, Marijn Franx of Leiden Observatory surmised that somehow these little galaxies have already merged with other massive galaxies around them.