Researchers using China’s FAST telescope have uncovered six distant galaxies rich in hydrogen and star-forming potential, significantly advancing our understanding of the early universe.
Dr. Hongwei Xi from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and his team have discovered the characteristics of six newly identified high-redshift galaxies. This discovery was made using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) located in Guizhou Province, China. Their findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
These remarkable galaxies, whose radio wave emissions have taken almost the age of the solar system to reach us, contain amounts of atomic hydrogen gas that are more than that of the tens of thousands of galaxies previously surveyed in the local universe using other radio telescopes.
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