Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden ...

The post Radio Antennae Could Soon Use Early Signals From Cosmic Dawn To Explain How The Universe Was Formed first on TwistedSifter. Somewhere between 50 to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, our ...

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in ...

A recently spotted black hole existed about 570 million years after the big bang—and may help us understand the evolution of the universe. A cropped image from the James Webb Space Telescope, part of ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Some of the universe’s most massive galaxies may have formed billions of years earlier than current scientific models predict, according to surprising new research led by ...

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

When did life as we know it first emerge in the universe? We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and new simulations ...

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Physicists announced today that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a ...

This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever ...

"We were surprised that water could actually form so early on — even before the birth of the first galaxies." When did life as we know it first emerge in the universe? We don’t know for sure, but the ...