Over the last few years, Hubble has given us views of infant galaxies as they were just 500 million years after the Big Bang, allowing cosmologists to see how quickly the raw materials from the newborn universe coalesced into stars and then galaxies and then clusters of galaxies. (discovermagazine.com)
Following the big bang, if the expansion of space had overwhelmed the pull of gravity in the newborn universe, stars, galaxies and humans would never have formed (newscientist.com)
On its way to collapsing directly into a black hole, primordial gas pools in areas of higher gravity in this supercomputer simulation of the newborn universe. (sciencemag.org)