Pinning down the structure of quark-gluon plasma, the universe’s first fluid | MIT News
In the first fraction of a second following the Big Bang, matter existed as a trillion-degree plasma of…
Colliding Stars in Early Universe May Explain Stellar Monsters, Study Suggests
Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the…
Watch the universe emerge from the dark ages, with Lumina | MIT News
Over the 2 billion years that Lumina simulates, it captures the emergence of two huge transformations in cosmic…
MEGATRON simulations connect the first stars with the universe’s smallest galaxies
MEGATRON simulations offer a possible explanation for the similar iron content of many of the smallest galaxies.Radiation delayed…
Record-Breaking Fast Radio Burst from Early Universe Traced to Tiny, Star-Forming Galaxy
This fast radio burst, designated FRB 20240304B, is the most distant ever detected, having traveled more than 10…
Reduced incidence of little red dots at z < 3 based on number density and halo mass evolution
Labbé, I. et al. A population of red candidate massive galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang. Nature…
Early metal-enriched baryon cycling before the midpoint of cosmic reionization
Observations and data reduction The data analysed in this work were obtained as part of the JWST Cycle…
Overmassive black holes and little red dots naturally form in simulations
Our cosmological initial conditions are based on the simulation Phi-4096 of ref. 51. In this work, a dark-matter-only N-body…
Extended components of little red dots in the rest-frame optical
Furtak, L. J. et al. JWST UNCOVER: extremely red and compact object at zphot = 7.6 triply imaged…
JWST Finds Three Black Holes in One Distant Galaxy
Black holes grow in two main ways: by swallowing gas or by merging with other black holes. Gas…
CosmoCube could use the Moon as a natural radio shield to study the Universe’s hidden era before the first stars and galaxies appeared |
Image: CosmoCube’s Website Long before stars illuminated the cosmos, the Universe passed through a mysterious period known as…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…