In the beginning, more than 13 billion years ago, the Universe was an undifferentiated soup of three simple, single-atom elements.
Astronomy
Apr 17, 2019
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Large differences in the 'fogginess' of the early universe were caused by islands of cold gas left behind when the universe heated up after the big bang, according to an international team of astronomers.
Astronomy
Apr 16, 2019
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A team of scientists has proposed a powerful new test for inflation, the theory that the universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting fraction of a second right after the Big Bang. Their goal is to give insight into ...
Astronomy
Mar 26, 2019
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Astronomers from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University have discovered 83 quasars powered by supermassive black holes in the distant universe, from a time when the universe was less than 10 percent of its present age.
Astronomy
Mar 13, 2019
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Our first glimpses into the physics that exist near the center of a black hole are being made possible using "loop quantum gravity"—a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational physics beyond Einstein's ...
General Physics
Dec 20, 2018
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Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang.
Astronomy
Nov 5, 2018
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University of California astronomers, including three from UCLA, have resolved a mystery about the early universe and its first galaxies.
Astronomy
Aug 14, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe.
General Physics
Jun 20, 2018
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Not long after the Big Bang, the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly enriching the interstellar medium with basic elements such as oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Finding ...
Astronomy
May 16, 2018
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Professor Stephen Hawking's final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has been published today in the Journal of High Energy Physics.
General Physics
May 2, 2018
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