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Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought

"We were surprised that water could actually form so early on — even before the birth of the first galaxies."

Space

The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought — and may be nearly as old as the Big Bang itself

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — meaning life could have evolved billions of years earlier than previously thought.

LiveScience

1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.

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Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played a key role in ending the cosmic dark ages.

Space

'Dark photons' at Big Bang's cosmic dawn could shine a light on dark matter

Interactions between dark matter and dark photons during a "missing chapter" cosmic history could shed light on one of the most troubling cosmic mysteries.

Space

New images show galaxy forming that is similar in mass to young Milky Way

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and ‘weighed’ a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang.

Evening Standard

Could dark matter have been forged in a 'Dark Big Bang?'

The Big Bang may not have been the origin of the universe's most mysterious matter. Instead, dark matter could have been created in a second creation event, a "Dark Big Bang."

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James Webb Space Telescope unveils surprising 'Red Monsters' in the early universe

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so quickly in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Space

'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for how physics may work on large scales, according to a team of astronomers.

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red monster' galaxies so large they shouldn't exist

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution.

LiveScience

It all started with a Big Bang – the quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang.

The Conversation

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.

Space

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…

The Conversation

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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Evening Standard

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…

Space

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."

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

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.

LiveScience

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?

The Guardian - UK

George Pickett obituary

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

Space

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.

LiveScience

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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