Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one of the most extreme galaxies known in the very early universe. The discovery of the galaxy and the ...
Astronomy
Feb 24, 2023
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Before there was life on Earth, there were molecules. A primordial soup. At some point a few specialized molecules began replicating. This self-replication, scientists agree, kick-started a biochemical process that would ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2013
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While many studies have hinted at the existence of dark matter, a material that does not absorb, reflect or emit light, this elusive substance has not been directly observed so far. Over the past few decades, many teams worldwide ...
In a Physics Review Letters paper published on Dec 15th, an international research team, led by Cai Yifu, professor of the University of Science and Technology of China, and his collaborators discovered the hypothetical possibility ...
General Physics
Jan 3, 2022
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Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang—the notion that an impossibly hot, dense universe exploded into the one we know today. But what do we know about what came before?
General Physics
Apr 19, 2019
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(Phys.org) —The faint background glow that exists throughout the Universe, called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), is made of photons that have been scattering since the universe was just 400,000 years old. Now in ...
In September 2020, the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, a large team of scientists working at different universities worldwide, announced that they had detected most massive gravitational wave binary signal observed to date, which ...
Primordial holes formed in the exotic conditions of the big bang may have become their own source of matter and radiation.
Astronomy
Apr 14, 2023
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Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang—tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles—may account for all of the dark matter in the universe.
General Physics
Jan 4, 2022
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As far as the eye can see, galaxies fill the images of the deep universe. What processes determined their shapes, colors and populations of stars? Astronomers think that primordial black holes were the engines of galaxies' ...
Astronomy
Dec 6, 2023
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