The Universe’s First Stars Unveiled in Turbulent Simulations

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This image is from a ground-breaking simulation of the Universe's primordial gas clouds. The Universe's very first stars formed in these clouds. The colour scale shows gas density. At this stage, one of the clumps has surpassed the Jeans instability threshold and begun to collapse into a Population III star with a mass of approximately 8.07 solar masses. Image Credit: Chen et al. 2025. ApJL

What was the Universe like before the first stars formed? Dark, obviously. But there must have been some level of activity in the gas clouds that preceded the first stars. New research shows that these primordial clouds were turbulent, clumpy, and supersonic.

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