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Astronomers Find Universe’s Most Distant Galaxy

Texas A&M Univ. and the Univ. of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but the Lone Star State’s two research giants have teamed up to detect the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy ever found — one created within 700 million years after the Big Bang.

The research is published in the most recent edition of the journal Nature. “It’s exciting to know we’re the first people in the world to see this,” says Vithal Tilvi, a Texas A&M postdoctoral research associate and co-author of the paper, available online today. “It raises interesting questions about the origins and the evolution of the universe.”

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