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̽»¨Ö±²¥image shows a deep galaxy field, featuring thousands of galaxies of various shapes and sizes. A cutout indicates a particular galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z6, which was a research target for this result. It appears as a blurry smudge of blue, red and green.

Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

19 Jul 2023

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.

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A new map of the dark matter made by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. ̽»¨Ö±²¥orange regions show where there is more mass; purple where there is less. ̽»¨Ö±²¥typical features are hundreds of millions of light years across. ̽»¨Ö±²¥grey/white shows where contaminating light from dust in our Milky Way galaxy, measured by the Planck satellite, obscures a deeper view.

New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity

11 Apr 2023

A new image reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, reaching deep into the cosmos.

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This image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the region of study by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES).

Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies

09 Dec 2022

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

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A pin being pushed into a bubble, in which there is an image of the Universe

Can cosmic inflation be ruled out?

03 Nov 2022

Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) by night

Slow spin of early galaxy observed for the first time

01 Jul 2022

One of the most distant known galaxies, observed in the very earliest years of the Universe, appears to be rotating at less than a quarter of the...

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Messier 101 ( ̽»¨Ö±²¥Pinwheel Galaxy)

Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births

21 Mar 2022

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three...

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Visualisation of radiation from a cosmic string network

Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology named Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence

26 Oct 2021

̽»¨Ö±²¥Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Hawking CTC) at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is expanding its Intel Graphics and Visualization...

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Bright red and yellow sun

Have we detected dark energy? Cambridge scientists say it’s a possibility

15 Sep 2021

Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥cosmologist modelling the Universe with maths

18 Feb 2021

Dr Tobias Baldauf likes nothing better than seeing an equation ‘cross reality’. His work is helping us to answer some of the remaining questions...

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European flags outside EU in Belgium

Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council funding

09 Dec 2020

Five researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have won consolidator grants from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premiere funding...

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Universe unravelled: Stephen Hawking Centre collaborates on new streaming series

13 Nov 2020

̽»¨Ö±²¥Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology has teamed up with Discovery on a documentary series exploring new windows on our Universe.

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Amelia Drew

Women in STEM: Amelia Drew

10 Oct 2019

Amelia Drew is a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Here, she tells us about dark matter, being the only...

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