Tag: Volker Bromm

  • Science & Tech

    Just-so black holes

    New findings advance insight on formation of supermassive black holes in the early epochs of the universe.

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  • Science & Tech

    Lifeless suns dominated early universe

    The very first generation of stars were not at all like our Sun. They were white-hot, massive stars that were very short-lived. Burning for only a few million years, they collapsed and exploded as brilliant supernovae. Those very first stars began the seeding process in the universe, spreading vital elements like carbon and oxygen, which…

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  • Science & Tech

    First supernovae quickly seeded universe with stuff of life

    The early universe was a barren wasteland of hydrogen, helium, and a touch of lithium, containing none of the elements necessary for life as we know it. From those primordial gases were born giant stars 200 times as massive as the Sun, burning their fuel at such a prodigious rate that they lived for only…

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