Tag Archives: Subaru Telescope

How could 2 quasars from the beginning of time be Rosetta stones for the early universe?

Just 900 million years after the Big Bang, a pair of quasars have been discovered spiraling towards a massive merger, illuminating the “cosmic dawn”. They are the first quasar The couple was detected this far back in cosmic time. Quasars are growing rapidly supermassive black holes in the nuclei of the hyperactive galaxies. Showers of… Read More »

Dark matter detected hanging from the cosmic web for the first time

For the first time, astronomers have detected dark matter hanging from huge filaments that form a “cosmic web” that stretches across the universe and traps galaxies in a spider web like morning dew. Researchers from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, indirectly observed dark matter sitting on cosmic web filaments using the Subaru Telescope, an… Read More »