Sentences with phrase «big black hole after»

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Two analyses indicate that LIGO could have detected black holes that formed just after the Big Bang.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence of primordial black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that some scientists have posited could be an explanation for dark matter.

Extragalactic neutrinos come from elementary particles that collided shortly after the big bang or crashed into each other while orbiting massive objects like black holes.

Quantum fluctuations may have caused matter to collapse into black holes after the big bang.

That would be big enough to see gravitational waves emitted by any merging supermassive black holes that may have existed around the time when the universe's first stars began to shine, about a hundred million years after the big bang.

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A hidden population of black holes born less than one second after the big bang could solve the mystery of dark matter

A gargantuan black hole has been spotted voraciously devouring material just 770 million years after the big bang

Black holes that might have been created shortly after the big bang could constitute the universe's hidden mass, but they would have to exist in such abundance that we would likely have already discovered them through other means.

«This chicken - and - egg problem of what was there first, the galaxy or the black hole, has been pushed all the way to the edge of the universe,» Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski said in a June 15 press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Schawinski was part of a team of researchers that used two renowned orbiting observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, to identify a population of black holes in galaxies at redshift 6, which corresponds to a time about 950 million years after the big bang.

Supercomputer simulation of a black hole (within the white spot) 400 million years after the Big Bang.

About 400 million years after the Big Bang, the universe still consisted of scattered stars and small, starving black holes.

In 2007 scientists spotted a billion - solar - mass black hole that existed some 840 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest and most distant one ever observed.

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But recently, a survey has found several quasars — bright cores of galaxies, powered by matter falling into a supermassive black hole — that existed less than a billion years after the big bang.

Researchers report that this is the most distant giant black hole ever detected, and at this distance, our Universe was only about 5 % of its current age, or about 690 million years after the Big Bang.

Artist's conceptions of the most - distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big bang, but those particles have been seen since the big bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a goner.»

The black hole pulled in all this mass within just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which challenges a long - standing idea that supermassive black holes and the galaxies they inhabit evolve in lockstep.

«It's hard to describe; after years of dreaming about this, writing all these papers saying, «Maybe we could even see two big black holes collide, it would be phenomenal!»

The finding suggests that supermassive black holes sprung up surprisingly quickly after the Big Bang and grew faster than the galaxies surrounding them.

Just a billion years after the big bang, supermassive black holes as much as 10 billion times the mass of the sun were making their presence felt in the universe.

«If we go back to the very earliest point in our universe, just after the big bang, there seems to have always been a strong correlation between black holes and galaxies.

A long - standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of years later during the deaths of the earliest stars.

Alexander Kusenko, a UCLA professor of physics, and Eric Cotner, a UCLA graduate student, developed a compellingly simple new theory suggesting that black holes could have formed very shortly after the Big Bang, long before stars began to shine.

That incredible distance means it dates back to when the first stars blinked on, which raises the question of how a black hole that big arose so soon after the universe began.

u «The daunting problem for theories of structure formation in the Universe is to understand how such huge black holes [3 billion solar masses] and the vast reservoirs of gaseous fuel were assembled so soon after the Big Bang...» Edwin L. Turner, «Through a Lens Brightly,» Nature, 27 June 2002, p. 905.

Here's the problem for those who believe a big bang preceded the formation of black holes, stars, and galaxies: black holes are too small to affect something as huge as a galaxy that formed long after the universe expanded, and there is no reason a galaxy should form a large central black hole.

Binary black holes recently discovered by the LIGO - Virgo collaboration could be primordial entities that formed just after the Big Bang, report Japanese astrophysicists.

The research may solve the long - standing puzzle of how supermassive black holes were formed in the centers of some galaxies less then a billion years after the Big Bang.

This computer - simulated image shows gas (blue) interacting with one of the first black holes (white) in the early universe, approximately 200 million years after the Big Bang.

In 2003, astronomers announced that they had discovered that iron from supernovae of the first stars (possibly from Type Ia supernovae involving white dwarfs) indicate that «massive chemically enriched galaxies formed» within one billion years after the Big Bang, and so the first stars may have preceded the birth of supermassive black holes (more from Astronomy Picture of the Day, ESA, and Freudling et al, 2003).

Indeed, GRBs appear to emit produce even more energy than supernovae or even quasars (which are energetically bright accretion disks and bi-polar jets around supermassive black holes that are most commonly found in the active nuclei of some distant galaxies and possibly even in the pre-galaxy period after the Big Bang).

These are much closer than the supermassive black holes seen in the Chandra image, many of which date back to soon after the Big Bang.

Researchers had previously speculated that to exist so soon after the Big Bang, certain conditions must have existed that allowed for the formation of supermassive black holes.

Updated A supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe, just 690 million years after the Big Bang, has been discovered by scientists.

Many of the black holes seen in the image date back billions of years, their formation traced to soon after the Big Bang.

After analyzing the quasar, the scientists found a lot of the hydrogen surrounding it is neutral, which suggests that the supermassive black hole formed during the reionization phase after the Big After analyzing the quasar, the scientists found a lot of the hydrogen surrounding it is neutral, which suggests that the supermassive black hole formed during the reionization phase after the Big after the Big Bang.

With its unprecedented look at the early Universe in X-rays, the CDF - S gives astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years starting soon after the Big Bang.

Given the 13.8 billion years that have passed since the Big Bang, it may be enough time for supermassive black holes to grow to their gigantic sizes, but how then do we explain that some of them formed less than 800 million years after the universe came into existence?

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

According to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the black hole is 12 billion times the mass of the Sun and was formed in the very infancy of our universe — less than 900 million years after the Big Bang.

He has worked on a range of topics in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, focusing recently on modeling the formation of the first stars and supermassive black holes within the first billion years after the Big Bang.

In recent years, astronomers have spotted several supermassive black holes that formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

Further observations of the quasar will provide researchers with even more constraints on how black holes in the early universe can form — giving a better insight into what happened just after the Big Bang.

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Using data from the image, researchers found that these black holes grew in bursts, rather than by slowly accumulating matter, about one to two billion years after the Big Bang.

NATARAJAN: We see bright beacons in the universe — quasars — in place powered by black holes that are roughly a billion times the mass of our sun in the young universe, just a billion years or so after the Big Bang.

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