Astronomers Find Hidden Structures in Early Universe
Using spectral data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have produced the most detailed 3D map…
The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests
In the moments following the Big Bang, the extreme heat and pressure coerced matter into a goopy mix…
NASA discovers a surprisingly massive galaxy cluster 2 billion years earlier than supposed
ⓘ NASA NASA’s official logo Two powerful NASA observatories looked deeply into a patch of sky and found…
Dark Matter’s Earliest Moments May Have Been Far More Extreme Than We Thought
Dark matter map (2021) by the Dark Energy Survey using weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Physicists Challenge Long-Held Assumptions about Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter may not have been ‘cold’ in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as long believed;…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…
A dense web of neutral gas in a galaxy proto-cluster post-reionization
Wolfe, A. M., Gawiser, E. & Prochaska, J. X. Damped Lyα systems. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 43, 861–918…
The early Universe with JWST and ALMA
Tamura, Y. et al. Detection of the far-infrared [O III] and dust emission in a galaxy at redshift 8.312:…
Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered chemical fingerprints of primordial stars weighing between 1,000…
Webb Detects Earliest-Known Supernova Explosion
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a supernova explosion accompanying the gamma-ray burst event…