Submission + - The Beginning of the Universe in a Picture
eldavojohn writes: "Yesterday, I found a Space.com article on what may be images of the universe's first objects. From the article, "The light comes from objects that are more than 13 billion light-years away. That means the light began its journey more than 13 billion years ago. The universe is just a smidgeon older, at 13.7 billion years, and astronomers are pretty sure it took a few hundred million years for the matter of the Big Bang to spread out enough, and cool, to allow the first stars to form. A little math therefore shows that these newfound objects are indeed the infants of the universe. But what are they? If they are stars, they are about 10 times more massive than theories suggest the first stars would have been." I didn't think much of this when I read it but there has been a lot of talk about it with some people even calling it "the holy grail" of astrophysicists."
