Big Bang Cosmology
A New Look a the Most Ancient Light in the Universe
About 370,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe had cooled down so light could escape, traveling for billions of…
The Big Bang: What is it? Why study it? What happened before? How will it all end?
Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the greatest event in all of existence occurred that literally created existence itself. This event…
Have We Seen the First Glimpse of Supermassive Dark Stars?
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) examines what are known as dark…
Warm Carbon Increased Suddenly in the Early Universe. Made by the First Stars?
New research shows that carbon was more abundant in the early Universe than previously thought, a find that could have…
The Record for the Farthest Galaxy just got Broken Again, now just 250 million years after the Big Bang
In a recent study submitted to MNRAS, a collaborative research team has utilized the first set of data from the…
These Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation
Studying the universe is hard. Really hard. Like insanely, ridiculously hard. Think of the hardest thing you’ve ever done in…
A New Record for the Most Distant Galaxy, Seen Just 300 Million Years After the Big Bang
An international team of astronomers have discovered HD1, which could be the most distant galaxy ever observed!
Life Could be Common Across the Universe, Just Not in Our Region
The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That's called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis.…