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Early Universe

Fast Working ALMA Resolves Star-Forming Galaxies

April 18, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter In a scenario where millions of years are considered a short period of time, hours are barely a blink of an eye. While it might take ten years or more to observe a group of galaxies with a modicum of detail [...]

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Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time

October 9, 2012

The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes from vast amounts of dust, which absorbs bluer light, and obscures the supermassive black hole from view in visible wavelengths. Credit: image created using data from UKIDSS and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observatory. [...]

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Oldest Spiral Galaxy in the Universe Discovered

July 18, 2012

Caption: An artist’s rendering of galaxy BX442 and its companion dwarf galaxy (upper left). Credit: Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics/Joe Bergeron Ancient starlight traveling for 10.7 billion years has brought a surprise – evidence of a spiral galaxy long before other spiral galaxies are known to have formed. “As you go back in time [...]

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Early Black Holes were Grazers Rather than Glutonous Eaters

June 20, 2012

Black holes powering distant quasars in the early Universe grazed on patches of gas or passing galaxies rather than glutting themselves in dramatic collisions according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. Remove this ad

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Hubble Captures Giant Lensed Galaxy Arc

February 3, 2012

Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image – a giant lensed galaxy arc. Gravitational lensing produces a natural “zoom” to observations and this is a look at one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known. Located some 10 billion light years away, the galaxy [...]

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