The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now

 

Image Courtesy Of Nsf–Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory/Noirlab/Slac​/Aura

Joel Kontinen

What do we know of the universe?  Not much, but the most detailed survey of the universe starts now.  Over 11 000 new asteroids discovered and ”they are expected to result in the most complete inventory of solar system objects ever created.”

“The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is finally beginning its mammoth survey of the universe. After a year of testing and calibration,it is starting the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which is poised to become the most detailed record of the universe ever captured.

For the next decade, Rubin will collect about 10 terabytes of data every night in the form of hundreds of high-resolution images of the southern sky. Each image will cover an area about 40 times the size of the full moon, and the completed survey will include nearly the entirety of the sky that is visible from the southern hemisphere.

This treasure trove of data will serve several purposes. The first, which has already begun, is to alert researchers to anything changing in the night sky, such as the appearance of supernovae or the motion of asteroids and comets. they are expected to result in the most complete inventory of solar system objects ever created,”

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 Leah Crane 2026 The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now | New Scientist 30 June 

Black hole stars really do exist in the early universe

 

Balls of gas with a black hole at their centre could glow like a star. Imagae courtesy of Shutterstock / Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi

Joel Kontinen

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded in an enormous ball of glowing gas.

Could black hole stars really exist in the early universe. According to the  big bang  view of the universe, the early universe  was thought to be inhabited with star like balls of gas but with red very light galaxies?

It seems that the millions of years scenario does not  correspond to real life.  

The early universe appears to be littered with enormous star-like balls of gas powered by a black hole at their core, a finding that has taken astronomers by surprise and might solve one of the biggest mysteries thrown up by the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

When JWST first started looking back to the universe’s first billion years, astronomers found a group of what looked like extremely compact, red and very bright galaxies that are unlike any we can see in our local universe. The most popular explanations for these so-called little red dots (LRDs) proposed they were either supermassive black holes with dust swirling around them, or galaxies very densely packed full of stars – but neither explanation fully made sense of the light that JWST was detecting.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Black hole stars really do exist in the early universe | New Scientist 22 December 

 

A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web

 

Image courtesy of Illustris Collaboration/ESO

Can a cosmic web strangle a galaxy? This seems to be the case with a distant galaxy.

The cosmic web is killing a galaxy. Galaxies can only continue to form stars when they are full of gas, and one dwarf galaxy nearly 100 million light years away is being stripped of its stellar fuel by the enormous web of matter that stretches throughout the universe.

One side of this galaxy, called AGC 727130, looks completely normal. On the other side, though, the gas is stretched well beyond the galaxy’s edge, pulled away by some unseen force. Nicholas Luber at Columbia University in New York and his colleagues spotted this disintegrating galaxy using the Very Large Array, a radio observatory in New Mexico.

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Leah Crane 2025 A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web | New Scientist 7 November

Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet

 

Image courtesy of Jan Röder; Maciek Wielgus et al. (2025)

Joel Kontinen

A galaxy termed M87 at a distanced of 50 million light years from us has a black hole that spewed out an extremely hot jet of superheated plasma.

We have studied it for a century, we are only now seeing it in great detail.

More than a century ago, astronomer Heber Curtis spotted the first black hole jet – a vast stream of superheated plasma from the supermassive behemoth that sits at the centre of galaxy M87. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed this jet in extreme detail.

Since it was first spotted in 1918, the jet from M87’s black hole – which was famously the first black hole to be imaged in 2019 – has been observed by a multitude of telescopes and is arguably the most studied black hole jet. However, many of its features still elude explanation, such as several bright-shining regions, as well darker helix-shaped regions. Astronomers think these are likely to be caused by the jet beam refocusing or different strands recombining as it encounters new material, such as a denser, gassy region. But the underlying mechanisms remain mysterious.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet | New Scientist 30 September 

We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

 

Molecular gas and X-ray emission around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s black hole. Image courtesy of Mark D. Gorski et al. (CC BY 4.0)

Joel Kontinen

Some scientists have found a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy:

We have found hot wind blasting out from our galaxy’s supermassive black hole for the first time, which could help us understand its mysterious inactivity.

Compared to many other supermassive black holes that lie at the centres of galaxies, our black hole, called Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, is relatively quiet. It doesn’t shoot out vast, powerful jets like black holes in many other galaxies do, which are so bright we can spot them even in the earliest moments of the universe. But all supermassive black holes, including Sgr A*, are thought to produce winds – wafts of hot gas blasted out from near the black hole’s event horizon, where gas is swirling and violently heating up.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Sagittarius A*: We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole | New Scientist 24 September

Possible galaxy spotted by JWST could be the earliest we've ever seen

 

The possible galaxy in an image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, CEERS, G. Gandolfin the.ir view

Joel Kontinen

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure that’s what it is.

Would this be the first galaxy, evolutionists keep on asking. In their view, it appeared sometime after the big bang some 13.8 million years ago.

Astronomers might have discovered a galaxy that formed extremely early in the universe, nearly 200 million years before its closest competitor, but they caution there could be other explanations too.

Giovanni Gandolfi at the University of Padua in Italy and his colleagues probed data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look for distant objects that formed early in our universe’s 13.8-billion-year history.

The further away a galaxy is from Earth, the longer its light will have taken to reach us and the more it will be shifted to the red end of the spectrum by the expansion of space, a property known as redshift.

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Jonathan O’Callaghan 2025 Possible galaxy spotted by JWST could be the earliest we've ever seen | New Scientist 5 September

Peculiar galaxy seems to contain surprisingly pristine stars

Abell 2744, the galaxy cluster where AMORE6 was spotted. Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, Jennifer Lotz, Matt Mountain, Anton M. Koekemoer, HFF Team (STScI)

Joel Kontinen

Can galaxies form in a beginning?

Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in cosmic history might let us see them for the first time.

A galaxy marooned in an empty region of the universe appears to be unexpectedly full of primordial stars. This could give astronomers their first glimpse of a kind of stellar object thought to have formed shortly after the universe’s first moments and which has never been directly observed.

Despite being able to peer back to near the beginning of the universe with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have struggled to definitively find evidence of the first stars. Known as population III stars, these are giant balls of mostly hydrogen that would have formed in the early universe. Being the first stars, they would have almost none of the heavier elements that are produced when stars die and explode.

By Alex Wilkins 2025 Peculiar galaxy seems to contain surprisingly pristine stars | New Scientist 25 July 

Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another galaxy?

 

Image courtesy of NASA/CXC/SAO/D.Patnaude

Joel Kontinen

Kepler’s Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astronomers think it may have been an interloper from another galaxy

Could a supernova be an invader from outside our solar system? some revolutions are speculating on this, but space seems to be full of objects that we do not understand just like this supernova.

One of the most famous exploding stars ever recorded by humanity may have been an invader from another galaxy, according to a new analysis of its movements. What is more, alien stars like this might be behind 1 per cent of all the supernovae we see in the galaxy.

In 1604, astronomers saw a new, incredibly bright star appear in the sky, outshining any other. German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who also derived some of the first laws of planetary motion, observed the star for a year.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another galaxy? | New Scientist 9 May 

An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

 

Image courtesy of SA/Webb, NASA & CSA, JADES Collaboration, J. Witstok, P. Jakobsen, M. Zamani

Joel Kontinen

How can galaxies form? A study has them forming some 239 million years ago after the Big Bang.

A galaxy found at the dawn of the universe appears to be the earliest known evidence of cosmic reionisation, the period when the universe was lit up for the first time.

Following the big bang, the early universe was filled with hot hydrogen and helium gas that scattered photons, making the cosmos somewhat opaque. Over the next few hundred million years, as stars began to shine, their light ionised the hydrogen and helium, enabling photons to flow freely and making the universe transparent, though the exact timing of this is uncertain.

Joris Witstok at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and his colleagues used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study a galaxy called JADES-GS-z13-1-LA. The galaxy is seen 330 million years after the big bang, making it one of the earliest known galaxies in the universe.

Ultraviolet light from the galaxy suggests it was surrounded by a bubble about 200,000 light years across, which might be the result of its starlight interacting with the surrounding cosmic hydrogen. Seeing evidence for this so early in the universe is “beyond even our wildest expectations,” says Witstok.

Michele Trenti at the University of Melbourne agrees that the observations are consistent with the process of cosmic reionisation. “It’s both surprising and exciting,” says Trenti. “I would not expect the ultraviolet light emitted from this galaxy to reach JWST. The cold neutral hydrogen gas that we were expecting would have surrounded the galaxy should have blocked the photons. We are witnessing the onset of reionisation.”

The nature of the small galaxy itself is not entirely clear; it might be shining brightly because of a population of massive hot and young stars, or a powerful central black hole. “This would be the earliest known evidence for a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy,” says Trenti.

While astronomers have seen other, later galaxies with a similar bubble around them, JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is the earliest known example. “It’s a benchmark,” says Richard Ellis at University College London. “It tells us that this galaxy must have been around for quite a while, and pushes that little bit further back to the beginning of when galaxies first emerged from darkness.”

JWST was able to unearth the secrets of this galaxy only by staring at it for a relatively long time, about 19 hours. Witstok is hopeful we might soon see other early evidence for cosmic reionisation. “We have a few more candidates,” he says. “We might find it even further [back in time], or maybe this is the most extreme that it gets.”

The millions of years in this study are not based on science but on  evolutionary thinking,

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Jonathan O’Callaghan 2025 An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy | New Scientist 26 March 

Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang

 

Image courtesy of Weichen Wang

Joel Kontinen

“The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way.”

 According to Big Bang cosmology, no galaxy should be this young, but research shows that this is incorrect and not true.  The Big Bang according to Darwinists cannot produce a galaxy so fast. The millions of years that are placed there, but this is an incorrect testimony of evolution that cannot happen in our time.  

“A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible.

Themiya Nanayakkara, at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, says the discovery was an accident. He and his colleagues were looking for quasars, energetic regions at the heart of some galaxies, with the James Webb Space Telescope in November 2022 when a “large spiral galaxy popped up”.

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James Woodford 2025 Big Wheel: Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang | New Scientist 17 March

 

Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre

 

Image courtesy of ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Joel Kontinen

When do astronomers see a n errant star that is speeding from the centre of our galaxy? They see it now,. This did not happen years and years ago.

“Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre.

At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole, closely surrounded by a group of hundreds of stars. Slightly further out is a larger disc of stars, and further out still is an even larger star group, called the nuclear star cluster (NSC).”

Space is big and wonderful, as God made it that way, and unexpected things happen all the time, like this speeding star.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre | New Scientist 7 March 

Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos

 

An image of the quasar 3C 186, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Joel Kontinen

Space is wonderful, we cannot see how God made it,  Just now two big black holes are  merged into one.  and it is flying at a speed of a thousand kilometres per second,

A rare collision between two supermassive black holes (SMBH) appears to have sent the resulting merger speeding through the universe, making it one of the fastest-moving black holes we have ever seen.

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the gargantuan black holes at the centres of galaxies can grow to be so large. One possible route is for smaller – but still extremely massive – black holes to merge together, but there has been little direct evidence of this happening.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos | New Scientist 6 March 

Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the making

 

Image courtesy of ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.

Joel Kontinen

 What Is space like? Now, scientist have discovered a young star that is just beginning to  evolve – that is what the news articles says.

But then they say that stars are formed in millions years. ” growing from dense, billowing clouds of turbulent dust and gas to gently glowing protostars, before materializing into gigantic orbs of fusion-powered plasma like our sun.”

”The young star, called HH 30, is a Herbig-Haro object — a bright knot of gas formed when the gas streaming from young protostars collides with nearby matter, producing shockwaves, It is situated 450 light years from us,”

So, how they take so much time to develop into stars? As Genesis says, God made the stars immediately at the beginning of time. It did not take millions of years.

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Ben Turner 2025 Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the making | Live Science February 7

James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed

 Image courtesy  of Esa/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner.

 Joel Kontinen

A new surview has just announced that the James Webb Space Telescope  “has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang”.

According to evolutionists, the “13.6 billion light-years away and just 200 million years after the Big Bang, are five galaxy candidates are the earliest ever detected”.

There is a problem with dating methods, since according to evolution, space events  are always counted in millions of years.  

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Ben Turner 2024 James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed | Live Science 3 December

A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy

 Astronomers have identified patterns within the motion of stars stretching across the Milky Way, hinting at the presence of a vast wave.

Was the Milky Way created by another galaxy? That is the question that evolutionists ask.

But The Milk Way seems to be guided by intelligence, that comes not  by change but with planning that the secular science cannot do.

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all astronomers are comnvinced that it actually exists.

While illustrations normally show our galaxy as a flat disc with a bulge in the middle, its structure is much more complicated. Astronomers have mapped undulating clouds of stars and gas that create waves across small sections of the Milky Way. 

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Alex Wilkins 2024 A giant wave in the Milky Way may have been created by another galaxy | New Scientist 23 August. 

Galaxy clusters and "dark matters"

 

When galaxy clustrse collided, the dark matter (blue) sailed ahead of the normal matter (orange). Image courtesy of W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko.

 Joel Kontinen

Astronomers have spotted two colossal clusters of galaxies colliding and shooting out all of their dark matter, which may provide crucial evidence of how dark matter shapes the cosmos.

According to evolutionists, “when two enormous clusters of galaxies collided billions of years ago, their dark matter shot right out of them, leaving behind the gas and stars that made up the remains of the clusters. Understanding this process could help us figure out the nature of dark matter and its effects on the universe

Clashes between galaxy clusters are difficult to observe. We have to catch the collisions at exactly the right time.”

But the creation view has a different approach . It says that everything was made almost instantly ar the beginning of time, and dark matter dark matter does not exist.

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Leah Crane. 2024. Galaxy cluster smash-up lets us observe dark matter on its own | New Scientist 1 August

Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds

 

Image courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser.

The galaxy is filled with wonders. Some of them belong to Black Holes. New research points to the fact that black hole collisions are almost inevitable.

The researchers say that supermassive “black holes, enormous voids that swirl around everything in the galaxies themselves. This swirly behaviour influences things like the disks of matter the galactic titan feasts on, stars and their systems — and, fascinatingly, even other black holes, albeit smaller, stellar mass ones.”

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Robert Lea, 2024, Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds | Live Science 29. April.

 

Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered

Image courtesy of ESO.

 Joel Kontinen 

“The Milky Way galaxy’s heaviest known black hole has been discovered in a binary star system, Tel Aviv University announced on Tuesday.”

What is the nature of the black hole that was discovered by Israeli scientists ,It is called the galaxy’s heaviest known black hole, it is1,500 light-years away from Earth.  

The star, which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass..

“This is an exciting discovery of the heaviest black hole in a binary system known today in the galaxy,” said Tel Aviv University Professor Emeritus Tsevi Mazeh.

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Pesach Benson, 2024.  Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered 16 April.

No dark matter in galaxy

 

Joel Kontinen

Cosmic evolution is in trouble.

"Dark matter, which accounts for around 85% of the matter in the universe, seems to be absent from the galaxy NGC 1277, part of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. ,"

The galaxy is situated some 240 million from Earth and. it is the first galaxy that does not contain dark matter. 

This is a serious blow to big bang cosmology, The big bang has other problems as well, for instance missing antimatter, cosmic inflation, quantum fluctuation. 

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Lea,  Robert, 2023, Bizarre 'relic galaxy' is missing a key component of the universe, and scientists are stumped. Live Science, 23 July., 

Space is big

Image courtesy of Sebastian Gomez et al.

Joel Kontinen

Space is big. Astronomers have found supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, . It is some 21 million light years away from Earth.

Azalee Bostroem at the University of Arizona, says it was it was probably a type II supernova, in which a supergiant star runs out of fuel and collapses in on itself before exploding. 

If we leave evolution for the moment, the answer seems to be that God created us  in the beginning, 

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 O’Callaghan,  Jonathan, 2023. Astronomers race to observe rare supernova in a nearby galaxy. New Scientist.   24 May,