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Webb Telescope Reveals An Ancient Universe Packed with Oddly-Bright Galaxies, Puzzling Astronomers

The James Webb Space Telescope gathered amazing images of ancient galaxies. This left astronomers asking, why are they so bright?

Inverse

'Big Bang of Numbers' – The Conversation's book club explores how math alone could create the universe with author Manil Suri

The Conversation U.S. launched its new book club with a bang – talking to mathematician Manil Suri about his nonfiction work “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math.” Suri, a previous author in The Conversation, has also written an award-winning fiction trilogy, in addition…

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Billion-light-year-wide 'bubble of galaxies' discovered

Astronomers have discovered the first “bubble of galaxies,” an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilised remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard

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Singing the ancient hymn of the Big Bang

Each experiment like this allows physicists to tease out the properties of the early cosmos after the Big Bang

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Black hole 'seeds' discovered in the early universe for 1st time ever

The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved.

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How did supermassive black holes get so big so fast just after the Big Bang?

Finding supermassive black holes with masses billions of times greater than the sun under a billion years after the Big Bang has scientists confused how these cosmic titans got so big so quickly.

Space

13 billion-year-old 'Maisie's galaxy' is one of the oldest objects in the universe, James Webb telescope reveals

Born less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, Maisie's galaxy is officially one of the four oldest galaxies ever discovered, a new JWST study reveals.

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Galaxy from the 'teenage' universe reveals its water map for the 1st time

A galaxy that existed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang has revealed the distribution of its water content for the first time.

Space

Looking back toward cosmic dawn − astronomers confirm the faintest galaxy ever seen

The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear, dark backdrop. But this wasn’t always the case – in its early years, the universe was filled with a fog of hydrogen atoms that obscured light from the earliest stars…

The Conversation

Giant 'bubbletrons' shaped the forces of the universe moments after the Big Bang, new study suggests

Meet the 'bubbletrons' — theoretical particle accelerators that may have helped build the universe as we know it.

LiveScience

The Bizarrely Unbalanced Early Universe Might Explain Why We Exist

New data collected by researchers using Japan’s Subaru telescope reveal insights into why the universe, and everything in it, exists.

Inverse

Extremely distant galaxy reveals stories of stars from their cradles to their graves

Located 13.2 billion light years away, a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang is home to one of the most distant sites of star birth, and death, ever seen.

Space

Measuring helium in distant galaxies may give physicists insight into why the universe exists

When theoretical physicists like myself say that we’re studying why the universe exists, we sound like philosophers. But new data collected by researchers using Japan’s Subaru telescope has revealed insights into that very question.

The Conversation

James Webb Space Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole ever seen

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date, and researchers aren't sure how it could have formed so early in the universe's history.

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Webb spies early string of cosmic web

The invisible threadlike structure is anchored by a quasar raising questions about black holes

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5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang, the theory that defines the history of the universe

From the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang.

Space

We have never seen dark matter and dark energy. Why do we think they exist?

We have never seen dark matter and dark energy, so why do we think they exist? And what would happen if Europe's new space telescope Euclid finds evidence that they don't exist after all?

The Conversation

A subtle symphony of ripples in spacetime – astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes

An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational waves reverberating through the universe. By using dead stars as a giant network of gravitational wave detectors, the collaboration – called NANOGrav – was able to measure a low-frequency hum from a chorus of ripples of spacetime.

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Why didn't the infant universe collapse into a black hole?

Why didn't the universe collapse into a black hole during the earliest moments of the Big Bang? Simply put, because that's not how you make a black hole.

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James Webb Telescope finds evidence of 'celestial monster' stars the size of 10,000 suns lurking at the dawn of time

The James Webb Space Telescope has found key chemical fingerprints of supermassive stars just 440 million years after the Big Bang.

Space

Cosmic monsters found lurking at heart of ancient star clusters by the James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that supermassive stars may lurk at the heart of globular clusters born shortly after the Big Bang.

The Conversation

Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos – here's what it reveals about the origins of time and life

The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an intense collaboration that ended only with his passing on March 14 2018.

Evening Standard

Traces of the universe’s first stars discovered by researchers

‘These findings bring us one step closer to understanding the nature of the first stars that formed after the Big Bang,’ the European Southern Observatory says of the University of Florence study

Chicago Sun-Times

Why do we exist? Fermilab’s DUNE project involving neutrino particles aims to answer that very big question

Fermilab physicist Sam Zeller talks about trying to discover why matter and antimatter should have but didn’t all annihilate at the time of the Big Bang. Which allowed us to be here today.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots huge galactic protocluster in the early universe (photo)

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted seven galaxies that are part of a developing galactic cluster just 650 million years after the Big Bang.

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