Sentences with phrase «long after the big bang»

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

When the four forces — gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force — split off from an ur - force not long after the big bang, the universe might have been threaded with defects that gave it a texture.

Not exact matches

If they really do exist, they might explain a long - standing puzzle — how the universe avoided self - destruction in its earliest moments after the big bang.

But right after the big bang, they could have made stars that last long enough for us to detect now

In 2014 a team of cosmologists using the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) instrument announced it had glimpsed something spectacular: evidence of cosmic inflation, a long - theorized phenomenon thought to have occurred right after the big bang.

Astronomers have long debated whether such early galaxies could have provided enough radiation to warm the hydrogen that cooled soon after the big bang.

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.

After so long I thought it'd come back with a bigger bang.