Birthplace of young stars: James Webb telescope gives stunning new look at 'Pillars of Creation' "We just discovered the impossible. Impossibly early, impossibly massive galaxies," Ivo Labbé, the ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Astronomers have discovered three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that could offer clues to the conditions in the early universe and to the nature of dark matter.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an exciting new discovery that could rewrite our understanding of the early universe. Five candidate galaxies observed by the JWST may be the most ...

Today our galaxy produces roughly one new star per year, but Castellano’s paper suggests that star-formation rates must have been at least 20 times higher in his and Naidu’s two candidate ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

A new discovery by NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope has pushed forward the confirmed end date of the so-called "Cosmic Dark Ages" by some 270 million years. In their study, an ...

Ultramassive galaxy discovery provides new look at early universe by: Eric Henrikson. Posted: Feb 27, 2024 / 05:00 AM CST. Updated: Feb 27, 2024 / 06:51 AM CST. by: Eric Henrikson.

The surprising discovery of COS-87259 and its black hole raises several questions about the abundance of very early supermassive black holes, as well as the types of galaxies in which they ...

The new discovery suggests that the very early universe contains many more galaxies than previously assumed. They simply lie hidden behind dust consisting of small particles from stars.

Josephine Baggen GRD ’28, a researcher in van Dokkum’s Group studying high-redshift galaxies detected with JWST data, is trying to understand how the current model can accommodate these unexpected ...

New knowledge about early galaxies Date: July 3, 2013 Source: University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute Summary: The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies.