This important evidence could prove the existence of a black hole just 850 million years after the Big Bang
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What came first, dark matter or the Big Bang?
Not much is known about dark matter, but scientists have long-thought that it was the remnant of the birth of the universe
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How many types of black hole are there?
These high-gravity objects come in more flavours than you might expect
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NASA space telescope observes the illumination of primordial galaxies
NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and its infrared capabilities have revealed the details of galaxies born less than a billion years after the Big Bang
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The universal mystery of the missing mass
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has used X-ray powers for the greater good to help solve the long-standing mystery of Universe’s matter
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Astronomers unearth a cosmic titan from the early Universe
Hyperion, the largest galaxy proto-supercluster, has a mass more than one million billion times the Sun
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New test to clarify existence of dark matter
Researchers have used sophisticated computer simulations that could answer a burning question in astrophysics
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When did the first black holes form in the universe?
Was it around the time of the Big Bang, or billions of years after?
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Astronomers detect the most distant oxygen ever discovered
This oxygen detection provides strong evidence that star formation occurred just 250 million years after the Big Bang
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Astronomers detect signals from the first stars ever born
Observations of the universe’s oldest light, the Cosmic Microwave Background, has revealed the first stars formed 13.6 billion years ago
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Early galaxies found to rotate like whirlpools
The gas within the galactic structures, which were formed less then a billion years after the Big Bang, have been discovered to have a ‘swirling’ behaviour
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Most distant black hole has been discovered
The supermassive object was observed just 680 million years after the Big Bang
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Record-breaking, low-oxygen galaxy provides snapshot into early universe
Dwarf galaxy J0811+4730 may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the young cosmos
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Astronomers discover largest mega-structure of galaxies in the universe
A previously unknown, extremely large supercluster located in the direction of the constellation Pisces, has been identified
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Universe found to be turning a shade of green
Astronomers have found that the earliest galaxies have been turning an unusual colour
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Astronomers discover space ‘has no sense of direction’
The universe is expanding uniformly according to new research by astronomers at University College London
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Astronomers find more quasars from the ancient universe
Over 60 new ‘space beacons’ from when cosmos was only a billion years old have been uncovered
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Universe is expanding faster than previously thought
Astronomers have obtained the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding at the present time
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