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Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects

Don't rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe's most mysterious stuff.

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James Webb telescope finds origins of the biggest explosion since the Big Bang — revealing a new cosmological mystery

Seen in 2022, a gamma-ray burst nicknamed the BOAT is believed to be the brightest explosion ever witnessed by humanity. But the James Webb Telescope's search for its origins has only thrown up more questions.

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Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called 'God particle,' has died

Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.

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3D map of over 1 million black holes traces where the universe's dark matter lies

Nearly 1.3 million quasars are included in a vast cosmic map, with the most distant having existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

Space

Speck of light glimpsed by Hubble is truly an enormous old galaxy, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on a mere speck of light seen by Hubble, identifying it as a massive early galaxy that existed just 510 million years after the Big Bang.

Space

'Axion stars' that went boom after the Big Bang could shed light on dark matter

Hypothetical particles called axions may have gathered to form "axion stars" that exploded in the early universe to create readable signals that could reveal the secrets of dark matter.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing in the early universe

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an "extremely red," growing supermassive black hole powering a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Space

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Did God have anything to do with the Big Bang, my five-year-old would like to know…

My son’s curiosity about the beginning of the universe and religion is prompting mind-stretching questions at home

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James Webb Space Telescope tracks a galaxy's history back to just after the Big Bang

Using the James Webb Space Telescope astronomers have zoomed in on a dwarf galaxy in the Milky Way's local group to understand the ebb and flow of star formation since the early universe.

Space

Did monster black holes or galaxies come first? The James Webb Space Telescope may have a surprise answer

Observations of bright galaxies in the early universe could indicate that black holes were driving star formation and galaxy growth just 50 million years after the Big Bang.

Space

Why the multiverse is possible according to physics, but not definitely

From the possibility of multiple universes to the concept of cosmic inflation, explore the boundaries of physics and reality.

The Hindu

Europe approves LISA, a next-generation space mission that will discover the faintest ripples in space-time

The new LISA gravitational wave detector, which will be launched into orbit in 2035, promises to detect cosmic collisions from the earliest moments after the Big Bang.

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Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of the Big Bang's afterglow, dies at age 90

Penzias, with his colleague Robert Woodrow Wilson, discovered the cosmic microwave background while working at Bell Labs in the 1960s. The finding was the smoking gun evidence for the Big Bang.

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An impossibly huge ring of galaxies might lead us to new physics. Here's how

This galactic superstructure appears to us as it was over 9 billion years ago.

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Cosmic strings can break — and when they do, they shake the universe

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout.

Space

The cosmic dark ages: Everything you need to know

During the cosmic dark ages, the early universe was shrouded in darkness. Learn more about why this was the case and how the universe eventually became transparent.

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8 stunning James Webb Space Telescope discoveries made in 2023

The oldest ever black holes, a preview of our solar system's gory demise, and a measurement of distant starlight that threatens to bring the standard of cosmology crashing down — here are the JWST's wildest discoveries of 2023.

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'It could be profound': How astronomer Wendy Freedman is trying to fix the universe

University of Chicago astronomer Wendy Freedman tells us how she's searching for an answer to the Hubble tension — a discrepancy between measurements of our universe's expansion that could threaten the dominant model of how the universe has grown since the Big Bang.

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Atom-size black holes from the dawn of time could be devouring stars from the inside out, new research suggests

New research suggests that if tiny primordial black holes created during the Big Bang exist, some of them may have been snared by stars and are now forced to eat their way out.

Space

Life might have been possible just seconds after the Big Bang

Some physicists have hypothesized that in the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the forces of nature were so extreme and so exotic that they could have supported the growth of complex structures.

The Conversation

Do we live in a giant void? It could solve the puzzle of the universe's expansion

One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM). This model is based on detailed observations of the light left over from the Big Bang –…

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Fortnite The Big Bang start time - everything we know about the end-of-season event

Here's what you need to know about the Fortnite Big Bang event, including start time, and details on the Eminem collaboration.

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Fortnite Big Bang live event announced and it will mark ‘a new beginning’ for the game

Fortnite's next live event, The Big Bang, has been announced for December 2, 2023. It will mark "a new beginning for Fortnite."

Space

Distant 'teenage galaxies' surprise astronomers with unexpected heavy elements

Significant amounts of nickel observed in galaxies only two-to-three billion years after the Big Bang.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen

We see these galaxies as they were over 13.45 billion years ago, just between 330 and 350 million years after the Big Bang.

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