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Observations challenge cosmological theories

Recent observations create a puzzle for astrophysicists: since the big bang, less galaxy clusters have formed over time than was actually expected. Physicists from the university of Bonn have now confirmed this phenomenon. For the next three years, the researchers will analyze their data in even greater detail. This will put them in a position to confirm whether the theories considered valid today need to be reworked. The study is part of a series of 20 publications which appear in the professional journal «Astronomy and Astrophysics».

A surprising chill before the cosmic dawn

An experiment to estimate when stars began to form in the Universe suggests that gas temperatures just before stars appeared had fallen well below predicted limits, and that dark matter is not as shadowy as was thought._ Nature 555, 38-39 (2018)

The secret life of Higgs bosons

The Higgs boson has existed since the earliest moments of our universe. Its directionless field permeates all of space and entices transient particles to slow down and burgeon with mass. Without the Higgs field, there could be no stable structures; the universe would be cold, dark and lifeless.

Scientists observe supermassive black hole in infant universe

A team of astronomers, including two from MIT, has detected the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed. The black hole sits in the center of an ultrabright quasar, the light of which was emitted just 690 million years after the Big Bang. That light has taken about 13 billion years to reach us — a span of time that is nearly equal to the age of the universe._MIT

NASA’s New Hubble E-Book Series Dives into the Solar System and Beyond

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has unveiled a new e-book titled “Hubble Focus: Our Amazing Solar System.” It kicks off a series of e-books that will showcase the telescope’s recent contributions to many different fields of astronomy.

“Saraswati”- one of the most massive large-scale structures in the Universe discovered

Indian astrophysicists identify mega-structure of galaxies 4 billion light-years away – several scholars and faculty of Indian Universities involved_ University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA)

Powerful outflows from supermassive black holes in the early Universe

Using the DiRAC supercomputers at Universities of Cambridge, Leicester and Durham, researchers at the Institute of Astronomy and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge simulated the growth of a galaxy containing a quasar similar to those we observe. _KICC

The Lockman Hole in X-rays

A special patch of sky can be found close to the Big Dipper, in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear. Appearing to contain no stars and hardly any gas clouds from our Milky Way galaxy, this region is called the Lockman Hole. A unique window into the distant Universe, it was discovered in 1986 by astronomer Felix J. Lockman._ESA