A new study published last week in arXiv reports that researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light-years away in the universe.
, meaning the object, dubbed HD1 and which is likely a particularly distant galaxy, represents some of the most ancient stuff out there.Live Science"The first galaxies formed about a hundred million years after the Big Bang," Loeb told the site. "They were a millionth of the mass of the Milky Way and much denser. One way to think of them is as the building blocks in the construction project of present-day galaxies, like our own Milky Way.
"The scientists aren't quite ready to say exactly what the object is, how old it is, or if it even is a galaxy for sure. In fact, others say there's a chance, although small, that HD1 could be"If HD1 is a black hole, we should see X-ray emission from it," Loeb toldLuckily, there's a hardworking new asset we can count on to deliver the goods on the new discovery.
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