11 October 2017
Have astronomers found the missing mass in the Universe?
...the cosmic microwave background and from nuclear reactions following the Big Bang, it was found that a vast proportion of this ...dovich (tSZ) effect, in which light left over from the Big Bang scatters as it passes through hot gas, both teams have ...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
... of z = 6 is equally to roughly 0.9 billion years after the Big Bang, depending on the parameters you use). This detection could help astronomers find...reionisation which started just 380 000 years after the Big Bang, were some of the other data to be ...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... suns were active within 180 million years of the Big Bang. "Finding this minuscule signal has opened a new window...suggesting that either the hydrogen gas so soon after the Big Bang was colder than expected or that background radiation levels were...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... Working with Roger Penrose, the two showed that the Big Bang could have had its beginnings from a singularity – a ...a regular appearance in popular comedies such as the Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory, while his book, A Brief History in Time, which ...
15 August 2018
Space is dark and not as full of galaxies as we thought, new study shows
... galaxies. In the first billion years after the Big Bang, ultraviolet light from the first galaxies filled the ...they illuminated the universe in the billion years after the Big Bang. According to Furlanetto, the astronomers hope that studying the...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
...means we can observe the Universe in hydrogen gas, and look for big clouds of gas with no stars in order to hunt for the... of these galaxies within the Virgo cluster. However, one big challenge when looking at galaxy clusters is determining how to tell...
