Tag: first stars

• Early stars stole gamma rays from blazars

  We have a lot of reasons to be interested in the earliest stars that formed in our Universe. Particularly, these stars were the first to fuse hydrogen and helium into (nearly) all the heavier elements that exist today, including the carbon, oxygen, iron, calcium, and the like that make up life as we know it.…

  Matthew R. Francis

  November 5, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  blazars, first stars, reionization, supermassive black holes