The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) by night

Slow spin of early galaxy observed for the first time

01 July 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 speed of the Milky Way today, according to a new study involving University of Cambridge researchers.

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The formation and evolution of the first stars and galaxies in a virtual universe similar to our own

Astronomers pinpoint when cosmic dawn occurred

24 June 2021

Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London (UCL). 

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