Water May Have Existed in the Universe 100 Million Years After the Big Bang

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Water first formed billions of years earlier than previously thought – study

Habitable planets could have started forming before the first galaxies, experts claimed.

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Abundant water from primordial supernovae at cosmic dawn

Primordial (or population III) supernovae were the first nucleosynthetic engines in the Universe, and they forged the heavy elements required for the later formation of planets and life. Water, in particular, is thought to be crucial to the cosmic origins of life as we understand it, and recent models have shown that water can form in low-metallicity gas like that present at high redshifts. Here we present numerical simulations that show that th…

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Supernovas may have spawned water shortly after Big Bang, study suggests

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Water Existed in the Universe Billions of Years Earlier Than Thought, Astronomers Say

Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline of planetary evolution.

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Water appeared in the 'instant' universe after the Big Bang

Water could appear for the first time in the Universe between 100 and 200 million years after the Big Bang, as stated by a modelling study published on Monday at the...

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The universe’s first supernovas probably produced water

Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.