Tag Archive for 'Big Bang'

This image, with taken with the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager, shows the quasar QSO 1549+19; blue shows hydrogen gas surrounding and inflowing to the quasar. Image credit: Christopher Martin / Robert Hurt.

Astronomers Directly Observe Intergalactic Medium

Apr 30, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager has captured stunning images of the intergalactic medium – the diffuse gas...

An artist's conception of how BOSS uses quasars to measure the distant Universe. Image credit: Zosia Rostomian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Andreu Font-Ribera, BOSS Lyman-alpha team, Berkeley Lab.

Astronomers Use Quasars to Measure Expansion Rate of Early Universe

Apr 8, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have used 140,000 quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was...

The tiny temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background, shown here as color, trace primordial density fluctuations in the early universe that seed the later growth of galaxies. Gravitational waves from inflation are expected to produce much a fainter pattern that includes twisting B-mode polarization, consistent with the B-mode polarization pattern observed by BICEP2, which is shown here as black lines. The line segments show the polarization strength and orientation at different spots on the sky. Image credit: BICEP2 Collaboration.

Researchers Find Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

Mar 18, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists using the BICEP2 Radio Telescope at the South Pole announced they have found the first direct evidence that gravitational waves – disturbances...

This is an artist's impression of the galaxy Z8-GND-5296. Image credit: V. Tilvi / S.L. Finkelstein / C. Papovich / the Hubble Heritage Team.

Z8-GND-5296: Most Distant Galaxy Yet Discovered

Oct 24, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Steven Willner from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered what they believe is the most distant galaxy ever...

This image shows the galaxy Q1442-MD50, center, with incoming cold gas flow. A stream of primordial inflowing hydrogen is illuminated from behind by a distant background quasar, lower left, - quasar added by an artist. Image credit: MPIA / G. Stinson / A. V. Macciò.

Astronomers Discover Star-Forming Galaxy Fueled by Primordial Hydrogen

Oct 3, 2013 by News Staff

In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org), astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of California...

Astronomers Hunt for Lithium in Nearby Galaxy

Sep 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...

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