Tag Archive for Early Universe

Using two orbiting telescopes – the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found the faintest galaxy...

Using the VISTA Survey Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Paranal Observatory, astronomers have discovered almost 600 new massive galaxies in the distant Universe. The...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just...

Using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in three extremely distant...

When the Solar System was born about 4.6 billion years ago only 8% of the potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets that will ever form in the Universe...

An international team of scientists has generated the most accurate statistical description yet of early galaxies as they existed in the Universe about...

Physicists from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have produced a quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter...

A multinational group of astronomers has shown that a large proportion of galaxies have undergone a major ‘metamorphosis’ since they were initially...

Known by its catalog name, EGSY-2008532660 (EGSY8p7 for short), the galaxy is so far away that light from it now reaching ground-based telescopes shows...

A team of astronomers – led by Dr Roberto Maiolino from the University of Cambridge, UK – has detected the most distant clouds of star-forming...

A multinational team of astronomers has spotted an oversized black hole in the center of a typical star-forming galaxy, called CID-947. This illustration...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile have captured detailed images of the gravitationally...

An international group of astronomers led by Dr Pascal Oesch of Yale University has discovered a massive galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past...

Water vapor could have been just as abundant in cosmic molecular clouds a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today, says a group of researchers...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Istvan Szapudi of the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy has discovered a large supervoid...

An international team of scientists, headed by Dr Darach Watson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has used the X-ray instrument on ESO’s Very...

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have been able to get...

A group of astronomers from the United States, China, Chile, and Australia, has discovered the brightest quasar in the early Universe, powered by the most...

Thanks to new data from European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope, researchers have found that the reionization – one of the most important...

Using two supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, a group of researchers headed by Dr Simon Portegies...