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Physicists at CERN captured the first clear evidence that the universe's earliest matter behaves like a liquid, watching individual quarks create ripples and wakes as they speed through primordial plasma. This breakthrough reveals how the universe's first moments looked more like a cosmic ocean than anyone imagined.
Scientists discovered a mysterious "overmassive" black hole that existed just after the Big Bang, challenging everything we thought we knew about how the early universe formed. The finding could rewrite our understanding of cosmic history.
Two objects once thought to be distant quasars turned out to be galaxies packed with the most massive stars ever detected, forming at incredible rates when the universe was less than a billion years old. The discovery reveals a hidden population of extreme star-forming galaxies that scientists had been missing.
The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed that nine ancient galaxies contain up to four times more stars than astronomers estimated. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how quickly the early universe developed.
Astronomers have finally figured out what the strange red dots appearing in James Webb Space Telescope images are: black holes wrapped in glowing cocoons of gas the size of our solar system. The discovery explains one of the biggest puzzles from Webb's first years of operation.
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered a galaxy containing oxygen when our universe was just 300 million years old, proving stars were already living, dying, and creating the building blocks of life far earlier than scientists expected.
The James Webb Space Telescope caught five galaxies colliding when the universe was barely 800 million years old, rewriting what we thought about how galaxies form. The discovery could finally explain one of Webb's biggest mysteries.
The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed that early galaxies contain far more small stars than anyone expected, potentially rewriting what we know about the universe's first billion years. These hidden stellar neighborhoods could mean more planets existed in the early cosmos than scientists ever imagined.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered an impossible object shining in the early universe with energy that no ordinary star could produce. Scientists think it might be a black hole wrapped in a giant envelope of hydrogen, revealing a never-before-seen stage in how massive black holes grow.
The James Webb Space Telescope found something extraordinary in deep space that shines as bright as 100 billion suns but looks nothing like astronomers expected. Scientists think they've discovered a black hole wrapped in a cocoon of hydrogen from when the universe was just a baby.
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope may have finally cracked the puzzle behind strange red dots spotted across the universe. The discovery could reshape our understanding of how galaxies and black holes formed in the early cosmos.
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Scientists just discovered three supermassive black holes sharing the same galaxy from when the universe was barely a billion years old. This cosmic first is rewriting what we know about how these mysterious giants grew so quickly after the Big Bang.