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Read more at: Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light

Simons Observatory Begins Hunt for Echoes of the Big Bang in Universe’s Oldest Light

20 June 2024

From a vantage point high in the Chilean Andes, cosmologists with the Simons Observatory have begun searching for evidence of what happened in the minuscule fraction of a second that followed the Big Bang. The observatory, which just completed its main construction phase, will make some of the most precise measurements...

Read more at: Earliest detection of metal challenges what we know about the first galaxies

Earliest detection of metal challenges what we know about the first galaxies

7 June 2024

Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other than hydrogen. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge observed a very young galaxy in the early...

Read more at: ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT

ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT

6 June 2024

Today, ESO has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions for the design and construction of ANDES , the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. The ANDES instrument will be installed on ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). It will be used to search for signs of life in exoplanets and...

Read more at: Earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with James Webb Space Telescope

Earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with James Webb Space Telescope

30 May 2024

The two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang, have been discovered using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers today announced. These galaxies join a small but growing population of galaxies from the first half...

Read more at: Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date

Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date

16 May 2024

An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most distant detection of a black hole merger ever obtained and the first time that...

Read more at: Galaxies and Black Holes: A Public talk by Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel

Galaxies and Black Holes: A Public talk by Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel

8 April 2024

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately this talk has been cancelled. We hope to be able to re-schedule it for a future date. We are delighted to announce a special public talk by Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel on 1st May at 18:30 in the Hoyle Lecture Theatre at the Institute for Astronomy. He is visiting us from the Max Planck...

Read more at: Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed

Astronomers spot oldest ‘dead’ galaxy yet observed

6 March 2024

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a ‘dead’ galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such...

Read more at: KICC scientists awarded more than 300 hours of observing time with the James Webb Space Telescope

KICC scientists awarded more than 300 hours of observing time with the James Webb Space Telescope

1 March 2024

Scientists at Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge (KICC), have been allocated more than 300 hours of observing time with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This observing time has been awarded through four successful programmes, including a Large Programme, led by Hannah Übler, Tobias Looser, Francesco D’Eugenio...

Read more at: Insights into Dark Matter's 'Coldness' Open New Cosmic Frontiers

Insights into Dark Matter's 'Coldness' Open New Cosmic Frontiers

15 February 2024

In their latest research on dark matter scientists have collected vital clues about the ‘coldness’ of the mysterious component making up 80% of all matter, revealing a deep connection between dark matter and the formation of galaxies in the early Universe. With the help of powerful telescopes, the researchers based at the...

Read more at: Webb: galaxy mergers solve early Universe mystery
Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, S. Finkelstein (UT Austin), M. Bagley (UT Austin), R. Larson (UT Austin), A. Pagan (STScI), C. Witten, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

Webb: galaxy mergers solve early Universe mystery

18 January 2024

One of the key missions of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is to probe the early Universe. Now, the unmatched resolution and sensitivity of Webb’s NIRCam instrument have revealed, for the first time, what lies in the local environment of galaxies in the very early Universe.This has solved one of the most...

 

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