The formation of the first stars and galaxies

Volker Bromm (), Naoki Yoshida, Lars Hernquist and Christopher F. McKee
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Volker Bromm: University of Texas, 2511 Speedway, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Naoki Yoshida: Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan
Lars Hernquist: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Christopher F. McKee: University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7243, 49-54

Abstract: Turn back the cosmic clock Nature's series of review articles on astronomy, marking the International Year of Astronomy 2009, continues with a look at the 'final frontier' in observational astronomy: the formation of the first stars, galaxies and massive black holes. At present these objects can be studied only through simulations. Today's ground-based and space-borne telescopes have probed cosmic history back to a time and distance when the Universe was less than a tenth its present age. But the next generation of telescopes, with the latest theories as a benchmark, will be crossing the present high-redshift barrier to the first sources of light in the Universe.

Date: 2009
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