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If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

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Figure 1: Montage, combining data from ALMA with images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, for four distant galaxies. The ALMA images, represented in red, show the distant, background galaxies, ...

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