Interstellar dust revealed by light from cosmic dawn

2025/02/12 by Yang, Xuejuan, Li, Aigen · 1 citation
#Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.08111

Abstract

The obscuration of light from a distant galaxy has raised the possibility that a type of carbon dust existed in the earliest epochs of the Universe -- challenging the idea that stars had not yet evolved enough to make such material.

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