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4 days ago

A team of scientists found a black hole that formed soon after the Big Bang

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

Does the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?

Nothing can exceed the ultimate speed limit set by the laws of physics, known as the speed of light in a vacuum, or 299,792,458 m/s.
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fromBig Think
2 weeks ago

How two freak accidents shaped human evolution

The odds that any given planet's gonna have complex life, I mean, this is really an opinion because we don't know about life anywhere else in the universe, but most of the scientists that I know and think about this deeply, I think the likelihood of life elsewhere is very high. It may not be the sort of life we're used to. It's not giraffes and redwood trees, but at least things like microbes.
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fromBig Think
4 weeks ago

Ask Ethan: Did our Universe really arise from nothing?

The more curious we get about the great cosmic unknowns, the more unanswered questions our investigations of the Universe will reveal. Inquiring about the nature of anything - where it is, where it came from, and how it came to be - will inevitably lead you to the same great mysteries: about the ultimate nature and origin of the Universe and everything in it.
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

'Death date' of the universe is sooner than previously believed

Researchers predict that the universe will reach its 'death date' at 33.3 billion years old, with approximately 19 billion years remaining before a Big Crunch occurs.
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fromBig Think
1 month ago

Starts With a Bang podcast #119 - The CMB

The cosmic microwave background is the strongest evidence supporting the Big Bang theory and encodes extensive information about the early Universe.
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fromBig Think
1 month ago

Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve?

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has significant potential to deepen our understanding of the Universe and resolve key astronomical puzzles.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the most distant galaxy, MoM z14, originating just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
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fromMail Online
3 months ago

Scientists reveal exact date universe will end: 'Sooner than feared'

The universe will end much sooner than previously predicted, at one quinvigintillion years.
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fromBig Think
4 months ago

Is our Universe fundamentally unstable, and will it decay?

The Universe's fundamental properties may be inherently unstable, leading to the potential decay of its structure.
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fromBig Think
4 months ago

Is our Universe fundamentally unstable, and will it decay?

The Universe's fundamental properties may be inherently unstable, leading to the potential decay of its structure.
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