In a rare and remarkable scientific achievement, scientists have detected a 13-billion-year-old microwave signal from a period known as the Cosmic Dawn. It is a time just after the Big Bang when the first stars and galaxies began to form. What makes this achievement remarkable is that the signal was picked up not from space,…
NASA‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected one of the most powerful black hole jets ever observed. The jets were emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away from the earth. This jet is formed during the universe’s “cosmic noon” which is a period about three billion years after the Big Bang. At that time, galaxies…
Galaxy cluster Abell S1063 (Nasa) As part of the ‘picture of the month’ series, Nasa has revealed a new image taken by the James Webb telescope that gives a look into the distant past. This picture of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063 is a gigantic collection of galaxies lying 4.5 billion light years from Earth…
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) snapped a striking photograph of an Einstein ring, a bizarre and intriguing optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. The unusual sighting was released to the public by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) as the image of the month for March, and it…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an extraordinary discovery by detecting emissions from a galaxy located over 13 billion light-years away. This breakthrough provides a rare opportunity to study the universe’s conditions just 400 million years after the Big Bang.A window into the early universeAccording to media reports, the galaxy, named GHZ2 (also…
Astronomers have identified the most ancient blazar ever observed, a supermassive black hole from the early universe shooting an energy beam directly at Earth. This cosmic powerhouse has a mass equal to 700 million suns, according to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “Properties and Far-infrared Variability of a z = 7…