The enormous ‘El Gordo’ cluster of galaxies suggests that dark matter is colliding with itself

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Strange behavior in a huge cluster of merging galaxies could be explained if dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious stuff, can collide with itself. However, the most favored model of cosmology at the moment is the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model – and it suggests that dark matter, which is effectively invisible because it does … Read more

New record breaker: earliest and most distant galaxies ever found by JWST

An international team of astronomers has announced the detection of two of the earliest and most distant galaxies known. The light from both comes from just 300 million years after the Big Bang and it was only possible to observe them thanks to the power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxies are … Read more

How galaxies grew in the early universe

JWST recently caught three of the earliest galaxies in the universe as they were contracting from a giant, dark cloud of hydrogen gas. The three faint spots of red light in a recent set of JWST data traveled more than 13 billion light-years through space to reach the telescope’s mirrors. That ancient light provides a … Read more

Did galaxies or supermassive black holes form first? – Interesting technology

Galaxies consist of various astronomical objects, including black holes, planets and stars. At the core of a galaxy lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH), one of the most powerful and dangerous entities in the universe. A puzzling question for scientists was whether SMBHs produced galaxies or whether galaxies formed SMBHs. Events in the early universe … Read more

Sloshing cold front detected in a massive cluster of galaxies

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked preprint trusted source proofread OK! by Tomasz Nowakowski, Phys.org RGB (three-color) image of Abell 2566 obtained by appropriate combination of emission measured at 1.4 GHz with VLA C configuration (red), Pan-STARRS r-band (green) and Chandra X-ray soft band (blue). Credit: Kadam et al, 2024 × close … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope sees three of the earliest galaxies in our universe

a whirlwind of blue gasses and bright spots wisp through space

Astronomers use the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered what they believe to be three of the earliest galaxies in our universe, actively forming when the cosmos was only 400 million to 600 million years old. In the JWST images, this galactic trio appears as faint red blobs feeding on nearby helium and hydrogen. For … Read more

Birth of the earliest galaxies in the universe observed for the first time

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Gas accumulating and accumulating in a mini-galaxy under construction. Although this is how galaxies form according to theories and computer simulations, it had never been observed before. Credit: NASA × close to Gas accumulating and accumulating in a mini-galaxy under … Read more

Galaxies actively forming in the early universe feed on cold gas

Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified three galaxies that may have been actively forming when the universe was just 400 to 600 million years old. Webb’s data shows that these galaxies are surrounded by gas that the researchers suspect is composed almost exclusively of hydrogen and helium, the earliest elements … Read more

Groundbreaking measurement reveals a black hole spinning at a quarter of the speed of light

A team of astronomers has managed to remotely calculate the speed of rotation of a supermassive black hole thanks to the object’s chance encounter with a star, which instantly destroyed it. How will time travel change Perry in Outer Range Season 2? All black holes have spin, which they develop through their interactions with other … Read more