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James Webb Space Telescope spies 'inside-out' star formation in ancient galaxy (image)

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed 'inside-out' star formation in a galaxy just 700 million years after the Big Bang, fleshing out our understanding of the early universe.

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Dark energy: could the mysterious force seen as constant actually vary over cosmic time?

As I finished my PhD in 1992, the universe was full of mystery – we didn’t even know exactly what it is made of. One could argue that cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of these basic facts since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the…

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The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or change its age?

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include discovering the earliest and most distant known galaxies, which existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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OPINION - London's lesson is change or die — and it's true for the Standard too

I did two spells at the Evening Standard, the first in the late 1980s, the second, as editor, between 2012 and 2017. In that first period of time, we covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the Big Bang and its consequences, and the drama…

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How dark energy could relieve 'Hubble tension' and galaxy headaches

The Hubble tension, a longstanding problem in cosmology, could potentially be relieved if early dark energy is taken into account.

Space

Black hole 'bullets' fired at Mars could reveal more about dark matter

Tiny black hole "bullets" left over from the Big Bang could be passing through Mars at speeds in excess of 7,000 times the speed of sound, causing the Red Planet to "wobble."

Space

Astronomers can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding. New approaches are aiming to break the impasse

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of the measurements, and interpretations and implications of this discovery, were a source of fierce debate. We now know the universe emerged dramatically from a highly compressed state in an event…

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A 'primordial' black hole may zoom through our solar system every decade

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational distortions that scientists can detect.

Space

Cosmology in crisis? A new series from The Conversation

If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and felt a sense of awe at the enormity and mystery of the universe, you’re not alone. We humans are curious animals, but understandably focused on our day-to-day existence.

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The universe had a secret life before the Big Bang, new study hints

The secrets of black holes and dark matter could lie before the Big Bang, a new study of "bouncing" cosmology hints.

LiveScience

Why is everything in space always moving?

From the moment of the Big Bang, everything in the universe has kept moving, but why is that?

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George Pickett obituary

Physicist whose work on nuclear refrigeration advanced understanding of the big bang and the early universe

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Gravitational waves hint at a 'supercool' secret about the Big Bang

If the gravitational wave background detected last year came from a "supercool" phase transition around the time of the Big Bang, they hint at new physics.

Space

James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible

The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive.

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The Higgs particle could have ended the universe by now – here’s why we’re still here

Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is at risk – walking on the edge of a very dangerous cliff. And it’s all down to the instability of a single fundamental particle: the Higgs boson.

Space

'Cosmic dawn:' NASA's Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

Space

NASA telescope may have found antimatter annihilating in possibly the biggest explosion since the Big Bang

Using NASA's Fermi telescope, astronomers have discovered a hidden "annihilation feature" in the gamma-ray burst known as the "BOAT," or the "brightest of all time."

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Can the James Webb Space Telescope see galaxies over the universe's horizon?

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just two years of operations, but how can it see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old?

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Is the James Webb Space Telescope really 'breaking' cosmology?

While headlines around the world claimed that these galaxies were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much more interesting.

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James Webb Space Telescope sees an ancient black hole dance with colliding galaxies

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

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Scientists Share About The Possibility Of Existence Of Other Universes, People Are Intrigued

Vera C. Rubin Observatory, with the largest camera ever built, might finally find evidence of the multiverse, which seemed like some kind of science fiction for decades. The post Scientists Share About The Possibility Of Existence Of Other Universes, People Are Intrigued first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Missing Milky Way black holes are bad news for this dark matter theory

After 20 years watching stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud for hints of a phenomenon predicted by Einstein, scientists throw doubt on the connection between ancient black holes and dark matter.

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This impossibly massive black hole wasn't very hungry during the dawn of time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an improbably huge black hole near the dawn of time, which doesn't seem to be eating near as much as it should.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope spots 'Cosmic Gems' in the extremely early universe (video)

The JWST has detected star clusters that existed less than 500 million years after the Big Bang. These clusters, in the Cosmic Gems arc, could reveal secrets of cosmic evolution.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope Found Strange, Sparkling Balls That Might Have Helped Light Up the Universe

These distant glittering spheres are tightly-packed clusters of stars, all bound together by each other’s gravity.

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