Astronomers used gravitational lensing and supercomputers to identify the colossal black hole, which is among the largest ever found. An artist's …
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How Physics Explains Weird Patterns in the Evolution of the Universe
Although scientists have taken important steps toward computing the measurable elements of our universe, they still have a lot of work to do.
The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest. An image of the …
Within a month of the Big Bang, a second cosmic explosion may have given the universe its invisible dark matter, new research suggests. Dark matter, …
Scientists who have thrown a single atom from one pair of optical tweezers to another say that the feat could be used to build better quantum …
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space. Waves that originated in the early universe could carry important information about the …