The huge object formed about 470 million years after the Big Bang, researchers said. The study was published recently in Nature Astronomy. The researchers said the findings confirm their theory: Supermassive black holes existed in the very early universe. The United States space agency, NASA, used...
"It's a pretty faint object, and thanks to like luck, nature has magnified it for us," Natarajan said. Launched in 2021 to a point 1 million miles away, Webb is the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever sent into space; it sees the universe in the infrared. The muc...
The object grew to more than 800 million times the mass of the sun when the cosmos was only 5 percent its present age
Finding an object with a redshift of 14 is unprecedented, and it indicates that we are looking back at a galaxy that formed within just 290 million years after the Big Bang. This was during a period called the Epoch of Reionization when the hydrogen began to be ionized and the first lig...
Scientists studying the moon have long thought that the object that struck the moon and created the crater hit at a sharp angle, like stone skipping over water. So, how was it that scientists possibly mistook the shape of one of the moon's most famous features? "It's...
Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed TeslaAstronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 201...
This laser-focus indicates more clearly how light has extended into the infrared band, because it breaks down the light into its component wavelengths. The breakdown also provides a clearer picture of the spectra, or colors within the light, which disclose information about the object’s ...
A small seed is more difficult to explain, however, because such sources would have to continuously accrete matter at twice their Eddington limit (the point at which the gravitational pull of the object is cancelled by the radiation pressure it applies through the accretion to the surrounding ...
The world’s oldest known “bug” fossil is from Kerrera, an island in Scotland. Credit: Michael Brookfield The team found that the ancient millipede fossil is 425 million years old, or about 75 million years younger than the age other scientists have estimated the oldest millipede to be usi...
Interestingly, one of the 12 galaxies in z66OD was a giant object with a huge body of gas, known as Himiko, which was found previously by the Subaru Telescope in 2009. "It is reasonable to find a protocluster near a massive object, such as Himiko. However, we're surprised to see th...