In a first, a team of researchers modeled water in the primordial universe.
Only very simple nuclei survived theBigBang hydrogen, helium, lithium and trace amounts of barium and boron.
Both events form water-enriched clumps of gas that waft through the cosmos.
An artist’s impression of a galaxy in the early universe.Illustration: ESO/M. Kornmesser
These dense, dusty cores are also likely candidates for protoplanetary disk formation.
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