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…
Vigorous turbulence driven by quasar-mode feedback in a cluster core
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)1 is the successor to the Hitomi X-ray observatory2, which ceased operations…
Dark matter may be naturally tuned to a hidden fifth dimension
Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests…
New study reveals how dark matter formed shortly after the Big Bang
Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. For decades, that…
Where did the universe’s oldest star clusters come from? A new study has an answer |
For decades, astronomers have searched for the birthplace of globular clusters, the dense spherical collections of stars that…
Hubble Peers into 13-Billion-Year-Old Globular Cluster
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of NGC 6426, an ancient globular…
Hubble has spotted ‘impossible’ light in deep space, and scientists are trying to explain where it came from
Astronomers have detected light from a tiny but powerful galaxy that existed when the universe was still emerging…
Hubble Detects Ultraviolet Light from Tiny Starburst Galaxy in Early Universe
Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, MXDFz4.4 — a galaxy 100 times smaller than the Milky…