Sentences with phrase «first stars in the universe»

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.

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.

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.

TOTALLY LIT The first stars in the universe switched on by 180 million years after the Big Bang, radio observations indicate.

LIGO's breakthrough discovery offers up new ways to test relativity, black hole collisions, dark energy, the first stars in the universe, and more

Swift also may see faint bursts from the first stars in the universe: giant objects that probably created large black holes more than 13 billion years ago, Grindlay predicts.

The first stars in the universe were huge, fast - burning, and short - lived.

It will pick up the dim, highly reddened light emitted by the first stars in the universe and answer fundamental questions about galaxy formation, alien planets, and the geometry of the cosmos.

The first stars in the universe might have been so deeply mired in clouds of dark matter that they could not ignite, a team of physicists has calculated.

We may never know for sure what the first stars in the universe looked like, but a new computer simulation has provided researchers with some initial brush strokes.

Most stellar archaeologists look for traces of the first stars in the universe, but Ivan Ramirez is interested in a more recent vintage.

The mammoth infrared observatory, scheduled to launch in 2014, will look back to the first stars in the universe

For this study, Chen and colleagues from Portsmouth University and Universität Heidelberg ran simulations on the Edison supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to illustrate how heavy metals expelled from exploding supernovae helped the first stars in the universe regulate subsequent star formation.

WMAP also showed that the first stars in the universe formed half a billion years after the big bang.

In this talk, Dr. John O'Meara will present a new suite of tools and techniques used in the hunt for Population III stars, and the critical role Keck and Maunakea has played at the forefront of our current and future search for these first stars in the universe.

Artist's rendering of how the first stars in the universe may have looked.