Explosions from First Objects in Universe Captured by Spitzer
What scientists are calling the ‘faint, lumpy glow’ given off by what they believed to be the lights coming from the first objects in the universe? The objects are too far away a faint for a definite identification. However it is expected that they may be massive stars or humongous black holes. What looks to be the collective patterns of their individual infra red light were captured by the Spitzer. And it suggests that they were numerous and burnt cosmic fuel.
Spitzer is said to be laying down a road map for the James Webb Telescope which is better equipped to give a more detailed identification of what the objects truly are. The first time Spitzer was used to search for very distant stars and black holes was in 2005. That was the first time they got hints of the remote light patterns and they also used it in 2007. What they did this time was to do a more in-depth analysis of patches of the sky.
They took a patch and subtracted all the known stars that are known from the patch including galaxies. What should ordinarily be left should be an empty black space after the subtraction but what they found was several patterns of light with telling infra red cosmic characteristics. What’s more, the clusters they found were consistent with what is obtainable when very distant objects are being observed.
They have concluded that there is a definite pattern being observed and believe that once the James Webb Telescope is commissioned and deployed it would give a clearer understanding of what they are.
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