Intense flashes of light, not mass, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and …
In a new study, a team of researchers from universities across the country discovered that star formation is self-regulatory, meaning stars themselves set their own masses as they are formed. This helps explain why stars in different environments still have …
Professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, helped develop a new high-powered simulation that shows how gas flows across the universe.
The simulation is the first to explain how galaxies’ spiral arms scoop up gas that …