Water was detected in a large galaxy of the early universe, in the farthest detection of water in molecular form to date in a star-forming galaxy.
The observations were made with the ALMA International Telescope in the Atacama Desert of Chile and the researchers made the relevant pre-publication on arXiv, followed by a publication in the astrophysical journal “The Astrophysical Journal” reports the APE-MPE.
Molecule detection water, together with carbon monoxide, was made in the pair of galaxies SPT031-58 (which are probably in the process of merging) at a distance of almost 12.88 billion light-years from Earth, at a time when the universe was only 780 million years old and then formed the first stars and galaxies.
This double galaxy has the largest mass of any known galaxy of that early age. Water is the third most abundant molecule in the universe after molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
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