Hubble Frontier Fields view of MACSJ0416.1–2403 Credit: NASA, ESA and the HST Frontier Fields team (STScI)
Observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble. The team has determined, for the 1st time that these small galaxies were vital to creating the Universe that we see today.
Hakim Atek’s team has discovered >250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600-900 million years after the Big Bang,one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs...
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