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By Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe February 5, 2024A transformative study analyzed over one million galaxies to explore cosmic structure origins, revealing significant alignments in galaxy shapes over vast distances. This research, utilizing innovative methods and confirming aspects of inflation theory, marks a significant advancement in understanding the universe’s formation.A team of researchers has analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore the origin of the present-day cosmic…

By The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University January 14, 2024The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of two early-universe quasars, shedding light on the relationship between black holes and their host galaxies. This breakthrough suggests that the mass ratio observed in more recent galaxies was already present less than a billion years after the Big Bang.JWST’s recent observations of two quasars from the universe’s infancy reveal crucial insights into the early relationship…

By Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe January 14, 2024Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarized light subjected to gravitational lensing effects, in addition to cosmic birefringence. On the far left, the white lines show the polarization pattern of the CMB light generated in the early universe. These rotate due to cosmic birefringence, resulting in the currently observed CMB depicted by the black lines on the right side of the image. However, the path of light is bent by the gravitational…