The chemicals reside within a galaxy that formed when the universe was about 10% of its current age.
The carbon-based molecules, technically known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are found in oil and coal deposits on"The molecules we found aren't simple things like water or carbon dioxide," study lead author Justin Spilker, an astronomer at Texas A&M University in College Station, told Space.com."We're talking about big, floppy molecules with dozens or hundreds of atoms in them.
"This pushes back the old record for detections like this by about an extra billion years," Spilker said.
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