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Early Universe

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last mo.

Simulations Suggest Rocky-Planet Building Blocks Formed 100 Million Years After the Big Bang

Computer models indicate the first stars’ supernovae could have quickly enriched nearby gas to make water-bearing disks capable of seeding early rocky planets.

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last mo.

Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Reveal Early-Universe Conditions in New LYRA Simulations

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5mo ago

HETDEX Maps 33,000 Hydrogen Halos Around Early Galaxies

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5mo ago

Astronomers Identify Most Chemically Pristine Star Ever Observed

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6mo ago

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

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7mo ago

JWST Confirms MoM‑z14, Most Distant Galaxy Yet, at Redshift 14.44

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8mo ago

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

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8mo ago

Webb Confirms Most Distant Supernova Yet, SN Eos at Redshift 5.133

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8mo ago

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

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8mo ago

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

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8mo ago

Precessing Black Hole Jet in VV 340a Drives Vast Outflow in Young Disk Galaxy

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8mo ago

JWST and ALMA Reveal Early Massive Galaxy Quenched by Black Hole Starvation

Early Universe

Simulations Suggest Rocky-Planet Building Blocks Formed 100 Million Years After the Big Bang

Astronomers Identify a Black Hole Star at Cosmic Dawn

Hubble Releases New Images That Map Young Stars and Ancient Clusters

New JWST Findings Complicate Origins of Little Red Dots

JWST and ALMA Image Supernova-Driven Wind Stripping Gas From a z≈5.3 Galaxy

Quiet Supermassive Black Holes Measured and Seen Driving Galactic Winds

JWST Measures 50‑Million‑Solar‑Mass Black Hole That Outweighs Its Host

JWST Finds 50‑Million‑Sun Black Hole Outgrowing Its Tiny Host

Chandra Spots First X-Ray Little Red Dot, Pointing to Early Black Hole Growth

Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Reveal Early-Universe Conditions in New LYRA Simulations

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HETDEX Maps 33,000 Hydrogen Halos Around Early Galaxies

Astronomers Identify Most Chemically Pristine Star Ever Observed

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

JWST Confirms MoM‑z14, Most Distant Galaxy Yet, at Redshift 14.44

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

Webb Confirms Most Distant Supernova Yet, SN Eos at Redshift 5.133

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Linked to Young, Cocooned Supermassive Black Holes

Precessing Black Hole Jet in VV 340a Drives Vast Outflow in Young Disk Galaxy

JWST and ALMA Reveal Early Massive Galaxy Quenched by Black Hole Starvation

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Early Universe