Sentences with phrase «infant universe»

«Scientists observe supermassive black hole in infant universe: Findings present a puzzle as to how such a huge object could have grown so quickly.»

As the tiny infant universe underwent its massive expansion, the extreme motion stretched any initial heterogeneities in its distribution of energy so quickly that they faded away into near nothingness.

At time = 0 the infant universe was smaller than a proton and at that scale quantum mechanics allows for some pretty weird things... including particles popping into and out of existence.

For example, if the nuclear force were a few percentage points stronger than it actually is, then all the hydrogen atoms in the infant universe would have fused with other hydrogen atoms to make helium, and there would be no hydrogen left.

«Astrophysicists map the infant universe in 3 - D and discover 4,000 early galaxies.»

We know exactly what the infant universe was made of and what it looked like in those earliest moments.

«Astrophysicists map the infant universe in 3 - D and discover 4,000 early galaxies.»

The sharpest map yet made of light from the infant universe shows no evidence of «dark flow» — a stream of galaxy clusters rushing in the same direction that hinted at the existence of a multiverse.

Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive period of growth called inflation.

If that field interacts with itself, then, as the infant universe expanded and cooled, the field may have taken on a value or «phase,» which would be a bit like the direction in which nickel atoms point.

The infant universe would have produced a huge number of WIMPs as subatomic particles crashed into one another.

The CMB is a literal firewall on efforts to peer further back in time using light — nearly all information about earlier events carried by photons was erased as they bounced aimlessly within the hot, dense plasma that suffused the infant universe.

Decades from now new generations of space telescopes could capture the mergers of supermassive black holes and glimpse pulsars spiraling to doom down their maws, or see snapping «cosmic strings,» proton - thin intergalactic defects in spacetime that may have been stretched across the infant universe during an inflationary growth spurt.

It is covered with spots and blobs, indicating places where the infant universe was either denser or less dense than average.

Forged in the furnace of the infant universe, they're invisible, huge and may make up the missing dark matter in the universe.

This first definitive evidence of supernova - produced dust provides a clue to the makeup of the infant universe.

DARK DETECTION The black holes LIGO detected could be dark matter, in the form of primordial black holes that formed in the infant universe.

Two international teams verified that sound waves cascading through the infant universe created an expanding set of ripples, where matter tended to congregate as time went on.

Earlier satellites such as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe detected microwave energy left over from the Big Bang, showing what the infant universe looked like when it was roughly 300,000 years old.

Though massive black holes are found at the center of most galaxies in the mature universe, including our own Milky Way, they are far less common in the infant universe.

The axis of evil could therefore be a relic of something huge and powerful that disturbed the infant universe in the very brief moment before inflation kicked in.

In recent experiments, physicists have replicated conditions of the infant universe — with startling results

Then, 50 trillionths of a trillionth of a second later, the fireball cools, just as the infant universe did as it expanded, and the quarks and gluons merge once again to form protons and neutrons.

Peering back to just 500 million years after the big bang, researchers have located what looks to be a galaxy in the infant universe

Most neutrinos originated just fractions of a second after the Big Bang and so carry unique information about the infant universe.

This infant universe is, like a newborn baby, almost featureless, yet to assume the characteristics that will mark it out in later life.

In fact, laser - powered black hole bombs may have been going off like firecrackers across the length and breadth of our infant universe.

In March, researchers working with BICEP2, a specialized telescope at the South Pole, reported at a press conference that they had seen pinwheel - like swirls in the polarization of the afterglow of the big bang — the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- that came from gravitational waves rippling through the infant universe.

Albrecht, now a professor of physics at the University of California at Davis, was trying to understand what was going on in the infant universe when it had existed for only a million - billion - billion - billionth of a second.

Last month, scientists announced the first hard evidence for cosmic inflation, the process by which the infant universe swelled from microscopic to cosmic size in an instant.

But as that infant universe expanded, it would've cooled to a point where, suddenly, electrons could settle comfortably around nuclei, making the first complete atoms of hydrogen and helium.

A full - sky map produced by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) showing cosmic background radiation, a very uniform glow of microwaves emitted by the infant universe more than 13 billion years ago.

Astronomers have announced one of the largest 3D maps of the infant universe, in a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.

It would also attest to subtle quantum interactions that may shape the cores of hypothetical «quark stars,» the piping hot quark soup thought to have saturated the infant universe, and, closer to home, the proton and neutron building blocks of ordinary matter.

Half a century ago, astronomers got their first look at the infant universe: a haze of soft light that suffused the entire sky.