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What Is the Big Bang? The Beginning of the Universe, Explained
We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...
Water Formed Much Sooner After the Big Bang Than We Thought, Scientists Say—Which May Mean Life Did, Too
Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.
Liftoff! NASA’s Twin Missions Launch to Unravel the Big Bang & Solar Storms
SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...
Exploring the limits of power: Where quantum theory and the theory of relativity meet
Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is ...
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The Man Who Helped Predict Black Holes, Both Real and Hypothetical
The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...
Space.com4d
Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought
We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...
NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
Live Science5d
The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought — and may be nearly as old as the Big Bang itself
A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — ...
15 Side Bangs That Prove the Style Is Both Timeless and Trendy
Side bangs are officially back—if they ever left, that is. And given that the fringe has legs in some of the most stylish ...
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Ireland v France: Five takeaways as ‘stupidity’ cracks open ‘ageing’ Irish while Le Bomb Squad goes bang
Following France's 27-42 victory over Ireland in Dublin, here's our five takeaways from the Six Nations encounter from the ...
NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...
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NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
The gist of the theory is that, back in the day - well, literally at the beginning of time and space, the “big bang” - the universe went through a brief period of exponentially accelerating ...