Tom Theuns and Liang Gao, astronomers at Durham University in England, used a computer model last year to study how two types of dark matter, known as warm and cold, may have influenced the formation of the very first stars in the universe — and the first giant black holes. (discovermagazine.com)
June 5, 2013 — By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team of astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the universe. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Loeb says «cosmic dawn,» when the first stars in the universe lit up, probably dates to 200 million years or sooner after the big bang. (scientificamerican.com)