Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre …read more Source:: Science
Tag: Big Bang
Putting the ‘bang’ in the Big Bang
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•Physicists have simulated in detail an intermediary phase of the early universe that may have bridged cosmic inflation with the Big Bang. This phase, known as ‘reheating,’ occurred at the …read more Source:: Science
Elusive star has origins close to Big Bang
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•Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, made almost entirely of materials spewed from the Big Bang. …read more Source:: Science
One of the oldest objects in the universe observed
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•Astronomers report that they have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe — born in the first one billion years after the Big Bang. …read more Source:: Science
Supersonic gas streams left over from the Big Bang drive massive black hole formation
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•A super-computer simulation by an international team of researchers has shown the formation of a rapidly growing star from supersonic gas streams in the early universe left over from the …read more Source:: Science
Physicists propose new theories of black holes from the very early universe
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•‘Primordial black holes,’ believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium came to be, physicists report. …read more Source:: Science
Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes?
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•Binary black holes recently discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration could be primordial entities that formed just after the Big Bang, report Japanese astrophysicists. If further data support this observation, it …read more Source:: Science
Most distant oxygen ever observed
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•A team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to detect glowing oxygen in a distant galaxy seen just 700 million years after the Big Bang. This …read more Source:: Science
Hubble telescope’s latest find pushes back clock on galaxy formation
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Astronomers said on Thursday they had discovered a galaxy that formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang explosion, the most distant galaxy found …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Green pea galaxy right after the Big Bang
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•After the Big Bang, the Universe expanded and, by cooling down, the matter progressively took shape. The first stars and galaxies form several hundred thousand years later. One billion year …read more Source:: Science