Earliest galaxy ever detected: Infant universe more active than thought?
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
The surprise finding of a young galaxy from a survey that was not designed to find such bright early galaxies suggests that the infant universe may harbor a larger number of intense star-forming galaxies than astronomers believed possible. This means theories and predictive models of the distribution of galaxies' star formation activity may need revision.