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Showing posts with label lit up early universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lit up early universe. Show all posts

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Explosion of galaxy formation lit up early universe


From the South Pole Telescope specify that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and sooner than suspected ending.

Extremely bright, active galaxies and fully illuminated formed the universe by the time it was 750 million years old, or about 13 billion years ago, According to Oliver Zahn, a postdoctoral fellow at the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP) at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the data analysis.