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Dec 25, 2018

Mind-Bending Study Suggests Time Did Actually Exist Before The Big Bang

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According to a straightforward interpretation of general relativity, the Big Bang wasn’t the start of ‘everything’.

Taking Einstein’s famous equations at face value and making as few assumptions as possible, a team of researchers has rewound the clock on our Universe to find it wouldn’t lead to a stopping point at all, but would take us through a different kind of beginning into a flipped space.

To understand what all the fuss over the Big Bang is, we need to rewind a bit to understand why physicists think it may not have been the start of everything.

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Dec 24, 2018

New York Times App Lets You See a Higgs Particle Reaction from the Large Hadron Collider in Augmented Reality

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, cosmology, particle physics

Although it’s impossible (at least for now) to travel back in time to see the Big Bang, The New York Times has provided its readers the closest simulation of the experience via its latest augmented reality feature.

On Friday, the Times published “It’s Intermission for the Large Hadron Collider,” an interactive story that gives readers a virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and explores its most famous discovery, the Higgs boson.

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Dec 23, 2018

Scientists Have Finally Discovered A Way To ‘See’ Dark Matter With The Hubble Space Telescope

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An international team of scientists has published a new study which describes how the Hubble Space Telescope can be used to ‘see’ dark matter.

An international team of scientists believe that they have finally found a way to “see” dark matter, which is an invisible and elusive substance that makes up 85 percent of the matter in the universe.

As the Daily Mail has reported, in a new study, astronomers hailing from Spain and Australia have written that by using data collected from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers may be able to use starlight from faraway galaxy clusters so that they can spot dark matter and eventually map this mysterious substance.

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Dec 22, 2018

Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About Our Universe Will Melt Your Brain

Posted by in categories: cosmology, neuroscience, physics

Nope. Too late already. It’s been molten long ago already ha…


Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his last theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven.

The paper, published in the Journal of High Energy Physics in May, puts forward that the Universe is far less complex than current multiverse theories suggest.

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Dec 21, 2018

Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”

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And it could reveal secrets about the origins of our universe.


And it’s billions of years old.

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Dec 20, 2018

😮 Photo

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This is a supernova remnant in a nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Don’t miss the full-size of this stunning image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory: https://go.nasa.gov/2EFFL7z

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Dec 20, 2018

Faint glow within galaxy clusters illuminates dark matter

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More information: Mireia Montes et al, Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2858, dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2858

Provided by: ESA/Hubble Information Centre.

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Dec 18, 2018

Matter Sucked in by Black Holes May Travel into the Future, Get Spit Back Out

Posted by in categories: cosmology, sustainability

Now that’s what I call a proper recycling facility… 😁🙈 The recycled universe ha 🤓 #recyclingholes


A new theory tries to explain the mysterious phenomena that exists at the center of black holes.

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Dec 16, 2018

Why Don’t Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Minds

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Black holes are great at sucking up matter. So great, in fact, that not even light can escape their grasp (hence the name).

But given their talent for consumption, why don’t black holes just keep expanding and expanding and simply swallow the Universe? Now, one of the world’s top physicists has come up with a new explanation.

Conveniently, the idea could also unite the two biggest theories in all of physics.

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Dec 15, 2018

If energy can’t be created, where did it come from in the first place?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, education, quantum physics

We’re taught at school that energy can’t be created, merely converted from one form to another. But at the birth of the Universe – that is, everything – the energy needed for the Big Bang must have come from somewhere. Many cosmologists think its origin lies in so-called quantum uncertainty, which is known to allow energy to emerge literally from nowhere. What isn’t clear, however, is why this cosmic energy persisted long enough to drive the Big Bang.

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