January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
..., mergers and active galaxies have evolved over cosmic time, especially during the violent, feedback-dominated early universe. Magnetic fields lines in Messier 82 overlaid on a visible and infrared composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope...
22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
... for an unusual kind of black hole born extremely early in the Universe. Termed ‘direct collapse’ black holes (DCBHs), these... engines of luminous quasars found in the early epochs of the Universe. The simulations show that supermassive black holes...
26 April 2019
As mystery of the Universe’s expansion rate widens, a simple solution is offered
... is expanding today, as we see it. The other is a prediction based on the physics of the early universe and on measurements of how fast it ought to be expanding,” explained Reiss. “If these values don't agree, there becomes a very ...
12 August 2020
Distant Milky Way look-alike is a breakthrough in the field of galaxy formation
...after the late astronomer Arthur M. Wolfe, was found so early in the Universe, this proved to be something of a conundrum. Galaxy ...the most well-ordered galaxy disk ever observed in the early Universe, adds co-author Simona Vegetti, also from the Max ...
22 September 2021
Telescope built by Karoo locals releases data to astronomers around the world
... producing world-leading limits”. A second paper further elaborates on the implications of those upper limits for models of early universe star and galaxy formation. Nearly six years after construction began, the array stands at a total of 332...
15 March 2016
Are our ideas of Dark Matter wrong?
... as protons and neutrons like normal baryonic matter. It is thought that WIMPs were created in the very early Universe, when the universe was at very high temperature, and the number density of WIMPs was roughly equal to the number...
