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Cosmic entropy could be 100 times greater than previously thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of supermassive black holes has discovered the entropy of the universe is much greater than previously thought, which means it may also be very slightly closer to ultimate heat death.

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Scientists glimpse universe before the Big Bang

(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, asking what happened before the Big Bang is not really considered a science question. According to Big Bang theory, time did not even exist before this point roughly 13.7 billion ...

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created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (102) | comments 174 | with audio podcast weblog

Physicists investigate fate of five-dimensional black strings

(PhysOrg.com) -- While black holes in four-dimensional space-time are stable and can persist for a long time, their higher-dimensional analogues are usually unstable. One such theoretical analogue is a five-dimensional ...

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created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (36) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Origin of magnetic fields may lie in special relativity's spacetime distortions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic fields play an important role on scales ranging from the sub-atomic to the cosmic, from particle spins to galaxy clusters. Although scientists know how to create and manipulate magnetic ...

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created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 46 | with audio podcast feature

XMM-Newton probes formation of galaxy clusters

ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has for the first time allowed scientists to study in detail the formation history of galaxy clusters, not only with single arbitrarily selected objects, but with a complete ...

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