Andrei Linde of Stanford University has argued that for this scenario to match observations, the black hole that gave rise to our universe would have to have formed with an unusually large size--much ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These tiny but brilliant objects, discovered by the James ...

Underneath a granite hill in southern China, a massive detector is nearly complete that will sniff out the mysterious ghost particles lurking around us. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory ...

Somewhere between 50 to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, our universe experienced something known as Cosmic Dawn. This was the time period in which the very first stars, black holes, and galaxies ...

Understanding the gas from which stars form is a fundamental goal in astrophysics. This is a pressing issue for pristine galaxies — those low in heavy elements, known as metals — whose growth remains ...

Although dark matter has a great influence on the state of the universe, such as the formation of galaxies, In a paper published on the preprint server arXiv in January 2024, a research team led by ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...

Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for everything to come. Scientists have now recreated the first molecule ever to form ...

"We're really pushing the boundaries of what current technology can detect." A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...