Sentences with phrase «years after the big bang»

Heck, matter didn't even start dominating until 60,000 — 70,000 years after the big bang.

Since then, the Steady State Theory has been disproven, and the Big Bang Theory has been shown to be correct, vindicating a form of «Creationism», which not only explains «let there be light» (the early universe was dominated by radiation — light), but explains of separation of light and darkness — the decoupling era, about 300,000 earth years after the big bang, when the universe cooled below the ionization energy of hydrogen, allowing it to become transparent for the first time.

It was not until about 380,000 years after the big bang that atoms could hold together and fill the universe with mostly hydrogen gas.

They could have been born from the demise of the universe's first stars (Population III stars), which we think formed when primordial gas cooled and fragmented about 200 million years after the big bang.

«The WMAP analysis placing the reionization at 420 million years after the big bang was a real puzzle,» says George Efstathiou, a University of Cambridge cosmologist and a leader of the Planck Collaboration.

According to Planck's data, gathered between 2009 and 2013, starlight began flooding the universe 560 million years after the big bang.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

When the galactic - dust data from Planck's more sensitive instrumentation is used to correct the WMAP findings, the resulting estimate for reionization also comes out to about 560 million years after the big bang.

Yet a shapely spiral galaxy has been glimpsed that dates back to 11 billion years ago, just a few billion years after the big bang.

To peer into the Universe's beginnings, scientists study the so - called cosmic microwave radiation (CMB) that was produced just 380,000 years after the big bang.

The team reports that the lights in our universe came on only 200 million years after the big bang, which is nearly 500 million years earlier than previously thought.

Atoms that are present when she looks into deep space, to regions seen as they were just a billion or so years after the big bang, and which should still be in our cosmic neighbourhood today.

«This is the first credible example of redshift - 10 galaxies» — corresponding to 500 million years after the big bang — «but it's not conclusive,» says astrophysicist Abraham Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass..

Theorists have predicted that telescopes could see such events from a time just a few hundred million years after the big bang, near the margins of the visible universe.

The telescope looked for swirls in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the earliest light emitted in the universe, roughly 380,000 years after the big bang.

The first atoms were theoretically created 380,000 years after the big bang, an epoch called recombination, when the universe cooled to allow electrons to become attached to nuclei.

For 100 million years after the big bang, the Universe was dark and filled with hydrogen and helium.

That would be big enough to see gravitational waves emitted by any merging supermassive black holes that may have existed around the time when the universe's first stars began to shine, about a hundred million years after the big bang.

In its importance for our understanding of — well, everything — measuring such a signal would be even more revolutionary than mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the relic light from when the early universe first cooled to transparency some 380,000 years after the big bang.

The SKA will take us to within a few hundred million years after the big bang, and probe the universe's dark ages — an epoch invisible to today's optical telescopes — to glimpse the birth of the first stars and galaxies.

One method looks at dimples in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a glow left behind by the hot, soupy universe just a few hundred thousand years after the big bang.

«Faintest galaxy from the early universe, 400 million years after the big bang.»

A gargantuan black hole has been spotted voraciously devouring material just 770 million years after the big bang

The inset is an image of an extremely faint and distant galaxy that existed only 400 million years after the big bang.

The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.

«This chicken - and - egg problem of what was there first, the galaxy or the black hole, has been pushed all the way to the edge of the universe,» Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski said in a June 15 press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Schawinski was part of a team of researchers that used two renowned orbiting observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, to identify a population of black holes in galaxies at redshift 6, which corresponds to a time about 950 million years after the big bang.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

The galaxy Hu and her team found has a redshift of 6.56, putting it about 15.5 billion light - years away, so this light dates back to just 780 million years after the big bang.

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy dating from just 780 million years after the big bang, making it the oldest object ever seen.

These clusters are so massive they warp the surrounding space, forming gigantic «gravitational lenses» that amplify the faint light from galaxies even farther away, ones born less than a billion years after the big bang.

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That indicates that they were born a mere 1 billion or 2 billion years after the big bang.

But the CMB was hotter earlier on in the universe — Avi Loeb of Harvard University has previously pointed out the universe's background temperature would be 300 kelvin (27 ˚C) around 15 million years after the big bang, making it warm enough to host liquid water.

Not so in the first few million years after the big bang.

But studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- the first light to be released, some 300,000 years after the big bang — show that the universe still looks virtually the same in all directions.

The universe's oldest light hasn't made a pit stop for 13.82 billion years — beginning its journey just 380,000 years after the big bang.

Called the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, this afterglow was produced about 370,000 years after the big bang when the first atoms formed and has been studied in great detail by satellites, such as NASA's WMAP probe.

The cosmic microwave background is a faint glow that pervades the entire sky, dating back to just 380,000 years after the big bang.

Others, scientists believe, were formed very early in the universe, a billion years after the big bang.

But recently, a survey has found several quasars — bright cores of galaxies, powered by matter falling into a supermassive black hole — that existed less than a billion years after the big bang.

Astronomers have spotted seven galaxies from a period between 380 million and 600 million years after the big bang.

More remarkable is the fact that the researchers, led by astrophysicist Richard Ellis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have imaged not one but seven galaxies from that early cosmic period, dating between 380 million and 600 million years after the big bang.

A team of researchers today announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has allowed them to see as far back in time as a mere 380 million years after the big bang — more than 13.3 billion years ago.

A few hundred million years after the big bang, the universe was dark.

A new study shows that galaxies present just a few billion years after the big bang had much more star - forming material, in the form of molecular gas, to draw on.

During this period, which extended from the cosmic dawn to about 1 billion years after the big bang, ultraviolet light was breaking down hydrogen in the universe into a soup of electrons and protons, making the universe more transparent.

Linda Tacconi, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and her colleagues used an array of telescopes on a remote plateau in the French Alps to look for the spectroscopic evidence of carbon monoxide, a key tracer gas, in galaxies that existed roughly three billion to 5.5 billion years after the big bang.

This allows more than enough time to accommodate the oldest stars in our Galaxy, and suggests that the Galaxy was born 15 to 20 billion years after the big bang.

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

At the moment we can only see as far back as 380,000 years after the big bang, when the universe became transparent to light.