Sentences with phrase «newborn universe»

Over the last few years, Hubble has given us views of infant galaxies as they were just 500 million years after the Big Bang, allowing cosmologists to see how quickly the raw materials from the newborn universe coalesced into stars and then galaxies and then clusters of galaxies.

Following the big bang, if the expansion of space had overwhelmed the pull of gravity in the newborn universe, stars, galaxies and humans would never have formed

On its way to collapsing directly into a black hole, primordial gas pools in areas of higher gravity in this supercomputer simulation of the newborn universe.

Cosmologists have long had a fuzzy view of the newborn universe and its basic components.

Finding so many primordial galaxies allows scientists to pin down crucial questions about the newborn universe, such as when light from early stars and galaxies penetrated the early cosmic gloom.

Finally, the newborn universe could have been agitated by distortions in space itself known as gravitational waves, which would stretch the whole cosmos in one direction and compress it in a perpendicular direction.

As the newborn universe expanded, matter and energy seethed within a dense cosmic broth.

Galaxy clusters need time to grow from small, denser regions in the primordial gas that filled the newborn universe.

And if the newborn universe swarmed with particles that can interact through only that force, then just enough of them would remain to supply the dark matter, so long as they weighed between one and 1000 times as much as a proton.

Unlike photons and other electromagnetic radiation, they would have travelled freely through the newborn universe.

It also sensed tiny 1 - part - in - 100,000 variations in the CMB's temperature from point to point on the sky — traces of infinitesimal quantum fluctuations in the newborn universe that are essential to the standard model of cosmology.

Those B modes were «the first direct evidence» that the newborn universe underwent a bizarre exponential growth spurt called inflation, at least according to a press release issued by the BICEP2 team.

If the expansion of space had overwhelmed the pull of gravity in the newborn universe, stars, galaxies and humans would never have been able to form.

Black holes may have grown incredibly rapidly in the newborn universe, perhaps helping explain why they appear so early in cosmic history.