Dusty early galaxies shed new light on how the universe built its first giants

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2026
A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has identified a previously unseen population of dusty, star-forming galaxies located at the far reaches of the observable universe and dating to only about one billion years after the Big Bang, which is estimated to have occurred 13.7 billion years ago. These galaxies appear to provide a missing ev