1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang

image via Space.com

February 7, 2025, 10:04 PM

• •New simulations suggest that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.
• •The water from these stellar explosions would likely have formed at the hearts of dense clouds of hydrogen, oxygen and other elements left behind by stars.
• •One of the biggest issues with the new study is that scientists have never directly observed one of the early stars that the researchers are modeling, known as population III stars.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies. However, this theory clashes with our current understanding of cosmic evolution and will be extremely difficult to prove.

Read original article