sam wormley

Ref: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/7/17

Astronomers have found evidence for star
formation in the earliest known object in
the universe. Fabian Walter of the National
Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US
and colleagues in France, Germany and the
US detected the tell-tale signature of
carbon monoxide in the infrared emissions
of quasar J1148+5251. The discovery
suggests that star formation was already
underway just 800 million years after the
big bang (F Walter et al 2003 Nature 424
406).

See: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/7/17