Early Universe
Dark matter dominating halos of supermassive black holes 13 billion light-years away
New insight into the relationship between dark matter and supermassive black holes.
Most distant and therefore oldest blazar ever seen
Early universe had more supermassive black holes than previously thought.
Conundrum solved: NASA’s Webb finds planet-forming disks lived longer in Early Universe
A different environment in early times.
Record breaking: Webb may have discovered the earliest galaxies ever seen
Webb finds surprises in Spiderweb protocluster field.
Direct observation of spheroid formation in submillimetre-bright galaxies
This breakthrough will significantly impact models of galaxy evolution.
A novel antenna design can measure faint cosmological radio-frequency signals
A first step towards detection of such a signal.
Three galactic ‘red monsters’ discovered in the early Universe
The formation of stars in the early Universe was far more efficient than previously thought.
Webb observed ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early Universe
Only 700 million years after the Big Bang.
Gravity can exist without mass, researcher shows, for the first time
Mitigating the need for hypothetical dark matter.
Early-Universe quasars formed in cluttered environments
A clear explanation to quasar ‘urban density’-conundrum.
There are more black holes in the early universe than previously reported
The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holes were created.
Astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars
The observations suggest some of earliest “monster” black holes grew from massive cosmic seeds.
Universe’s Expansion History: Insights from the DESI Survey
The DESI survey has observed a new set of 5000 galaxies every 20 minutes since its launch in 2021.
Largest-ever map of the universe’s active supermassive black holes
New “quasar catalog” serves as a 3D history book of the universe.
Scientists unprecedentedly detailed observations of one of the earliest known galaxies
Growth in the early Universe was much faster than first thought.
Scientists analysed millions of galaxies to explore the origin of the universe
How did the universe begin?
Astrophysical Chaos: What happens if you put a black hole into the Sun?
In a hypothetical scenario, small, primordial black holes could be captured by newly forming stars.
Webb discovered the second-most distant galaxy
Follow-up observations in Pandora’s cluster confirmed the second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever seen.
A galaxy like the Milky Way found in the early universe
The discovery is expected to change at least two aspects of astronomy.
The rate at which large cosmic structures grow is slower than predicted
It’s like a fabric loom where one-, two- and three-dimensional collapses look like a sheet.
An immense bubble of galaxies discovered
It is so huge that it spills to the edges of the sector of the sky that we were analyzing.
A new image of a galaxy cluster revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before
Webb spotlights gravitational arcs in ‘El Gordo’ galaxy cluster.