Sentences with phrase «distant early universe»

When he examined galaxies in the distant early universe, astronomer Roberto Abraham of the University of Toronto found they were far more mature than expected.

Not exact matches

Astronomers expected water vapor to be present even in the early, distant universe, but had not detected it this far away before.

The MOIRCS near - infrared spectrograph is very effective for studies focused on the distant, early universe because strong emission lines from star - forming galaxies are redshifted from the optical to the near - infrared regime.

Some research has been done to deduce the chemical makeup of very early galaxies, based on observations of very bright, distant galaxies, or of very old stars that formed in the early universe and are still around today, Hewitt said.

Foreground galaxy clusters can warp and magnify the light of distant, background proto - galaxies, for instance, allowing cosmologists to catch glimpses of early epochs of the universe.

On the distant shore are the cosmic microwave background observations of the early universe.

Cosmologists probe the early universe by looking at distant objects.

One controversial explanation given for earlier evidence of this flow was the tug of a second, distant universe.

«Dust is ubiquitous in nearby and more distant galaxies, but has, until recently, been very difficult to detect in the very early universe,» says University of Edinburgh astrophysicist Michal Michalowski, who was not involved in the study.

Added Bram Venemans of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany: «Quasars are among the brightest and most - distant known celestial objects and are crucial to understanding the early universe.»

Astronomers peering at the early universe have glimpsed the most distant quasar yet.

BOSS employs both galaxies and distant quasars to measure baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), a signature imprint in the way matter is distributed, resulting from conditions in the early universe.

And earlier this year, astronomers showed that the early, distant universe is missing the glow of x-ray light that would be expected from a multitude of small black holes — another sign favoring the sudden birth of big seeds that go on to be supermassive black holes.

«Just like the brightest lighthouse in the distant universe, its glowing light will help us to probe more about the early universe.»

My early life amplified this feeling of solitude: My mom died when I was a kid, and for a time the rest of the human species felt as distant from me as the deep universe does now.

Looking into the distant, early universe, we would expect dwarf galaxies to be numerous but also too faint to see.

An analysis of the way light passes through distant molecular clouds will reveal more about how the elements were produced early in the universe's history.

«We are going to have the ability to observe the most distant objects, among the earliest in the universe, and thus probe the secrets of creation,» said Nasa's chief scientist, Leonard Fisk.

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

These previously unseen distant galaxies and others like them are so numerous that they are likely producing the majority of stars formed in the early universe.

«It has mapped the dust in three dimensions in our galaxy and found new streams of stars; and it has found new kinds of exploding stars and distant quasars in the early universe.»

But how do we spot and interpret galactic duos in the distant, early universe?

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

It records the spectra of up to 50 objects simultaneously, especially useful for studies of galaxies in the most distant reaches, and earliest times, of the universe.

Continued studies backed by the power of these future telescopes are sure to discover a wealth of additional distant galactic duos, helping us to characterize the universe in its early stages.

LRIS also records the spectra of up to 50 objects simultaneously, especially useful for studies of clusters of galaxies in the most distant reaches, and earliest times, of the universe.

This meeting brings together scientists from across Europe, whose aim is to detect the gravitational wave signature from interacting supermassive black holes in distant, merging galaxies in the early universe.

Hubble's latest discovery of 250 faint galaxies — formed 600 million to 900 million years after the Big Bang — in the early universe using three galaxy clusters to magnify the light given off by these distant objects.

«Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant, young galaxies from the early universe,» said Marta Sewiło, an astronomer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

On April 23, 2001, a team of astronomers (including Xiaohui Fan, Robert Becker, Michael Strauss, and Richard L. White) working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced that they had observed a distant «quasar» from the earliest stellar era of the universe (see: news summary; SDSS press release; Becker et al, 2001; and Fan et al, 2001).

A distant cloud of space dust is helping scientists confirm how stars likely formed in the early universe.

As Webb observes light that's traveled from the far reaches of the cosmos, it captures images of distant stars and forming galaxies as they were in the earliest stages of the universe.

They are some of the most distant objects discovered in the observable universe, making them key to understanding the formation of the cosmos we inhabit — especially the early stages when the first stars and galaxies burst into existence.

But we haven't fully connected our theories to what we observe, especially with quasars, these incredibly bright centers of very distant galaxies that serve as beacons of the early universe.