• Whoa! Astronomers Just Discovered The Earliest Galaxy We've Ever Seen

    Updated: 2024-05-31 07:32:15
    Space Health Environment Humans Tech Nature Physics Society Opinion Explainer About Us Our Team Follow Us Daily Newsletter Contact Privacy Privacy Manager Accessibility Terms 2024 ScienceAlert Pty Ltd Whoa Astronomers Just Discovered The Earliest Galaxy We've Ever Seen Space 31 May 2024 By Michelle Starr The most distant galaxy discovered to date , JADES-GS-z14-0, less than 300 million years after the Big . Bang NASA , ESA , CSA , STScI , Brant Robertson UC Santa Cruz , Ben Johnson CfA , Sandro Tacchella Cambridge , Phill Cargile CfA A newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet , presenting a major challenge to our current models of galaxy . formation It's called JADES-GS-z14-0, and its brightly gleaming in the early Universe , as it looked less than 300

  • Medium and mighty: Intermediate-mass black holes can survive in globular clusters

    Updated: 2024-05-30 22:21:43
    New research demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even millions of tightly packed stars. The first ever star-by-star massive cluster-formation simulations revealed that sufficiently dense molecular clouds, the 'birthing nests' of star clusters, can give birth to very massive stars that evolve into intermediate-mass black holes.

  • Cosmic Forge: The Creation of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters

    Updated: 2024-05-30 18:00:25
    New research utilizes the first-ever simulations of individual stars in forming globular clusters to explore potential formation mechanisms of intermediate-mass black holes. A new study...

  • NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant known galaxy

    Updated: 2024-05-30 17:27:04
    Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn -- the period in the first few hundred million years after the big bang where the first galaxies were born.

  • The case of the missing black holes

    Updated: 2024-05-29 18:42:06
    Researchers have applied the well-understood and highly verified quantum field theory, usually applied to the study of the very small, to a new target, the early universe. Their exploration led to the conclusion that there ought to be far fewer miniature black holes than most models suggest, though observations to confirm this should soon be possible. The specific kind of black hole in question could be a contender for dark matter.

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