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Atomic Anomaly Confirmed! Evidence for a “dark force”?

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In 2020, a group of MIT researchers detected an anomaly in the nuclei of ytterbium atoms. They said that the nuclei’s strange behavior might be indicative of a “dark force” caused by a currently-undiscovered mystery particle that might make up dark matter. In 2020, the anomaly only had a significance of 3 sigma. But now, another group has confirmed it at a whopping 23 sigma! What does that mean for physics? Let’s find out.

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Quantum genesis: The emergence of a flat universe and its mirror from nothing

I’ve long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe’s origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the traditional singularity-based models of cosmology. Instead of a universe emerging from an infinitely dense point, I propose that a flat universe and its time-reversed partner—an anti-universe—can emerge together from nothing through a smooth, quantum process.

This model, described in a manuscript accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters, addresses some of the key challenges in earlier proposals, such as the Hartle–Hawking no-boundary and Vilenkin’s tunneling approaches.

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Dark Matter May Be Annihilating Itself at the Heart of the Milky Way

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky WayThe Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System and is part of the Local Group of galaxies. It is a barred spiral galaxy that contains an estimated 100–400 billion stars and has a diameter between 150,000 and 200,000 light-years. The name “Milky Way” comes from the appearance of the galaxy from Earth as a faint band of light that stretches across the night sky, resembling spilled milk. tabindex=0 Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter.

Gravitational wave signal denoising and merger time prediction with a deep neural network

The mergers of massive black hole binaries could generate rich electromagnetic emissions, which allow us to probe the environments surrounding these massive black holes and gain deeper insights into the high energy astrophysics. However, due to the short timescale of binary mergers, it is crucial to predict the time of the merger in advance to devise detailed observational plans. The overwhelming noise and slow accumulation of the signal-to-noise ratio in the inspiral phase make this task particularly challenging. To address this issue, we propose a novel deep neural denoising network in this study, capable of denoising a 30-day inspiral phase signal. Following the denoising process, we perform the detection and merger time prediction based on the denoised signals.

Observational study supports century-old theory that challenges the Big Bang

A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an observational study in support of a century-old theory that directly challenges the validity of the Big Bang theory.

Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science, used imaging from a trio of telescopes and more than 30,000 galaxies to measure the redshift of galaxies based on their distance from Earth. Redshift is the change in the frequency of waves that a galaxy emits, which use to gauge a galaxy’s speed.

Shamir’s findings lend support to the century-old “tired light” theory instead of the Big Bang. The findings are published in the journal Particles.

Cosmic Chameleon: Astronomers Stunned by a Blazar’s Unpredictable Light Show

BL Lacertae, an enigmatic blazar, has shattered long-held classification norms, leaving astronomers baffled. Originally mistaken for a variable star, this active galaxy emits high-energy jets that have suddenly defied expectations.

Observations from 2020–2023 revealed that BL Lacertae doesn’t neatly fit into any of the three known blazar categories, shifting unpredictably between classifications. This rapid transformation, particularly in X-ray emissions, has sparked intense debate about the underlying physics. Could it be an entirely new type of blazar? Or is an unknown mechanism at play, altering its radiation patterns at unprecedented speeds?

Mysterious Blazar Challenges Astronomers.

Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind

As for these new JWST findings. Poplawski told Space.com: “It would be fascinating if our universe had a preferred axis. Such an axis could be naturally explained by the theory that our universe was born on the other side of the event horizon of a black hole existing in some parent universe.”

He added that black holes form from stars or at the centers of galaxies, and most likely globular clusters, which all rotate. That means black holes also rotate, and the axis of rotation of a black hole would influence a universe created by the black hole, manifesting itself as a preferred axis.

“I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole. Spacetime torsion provides the most natural mechanism that avoids a singularity in a black hole and instead creates a new, closed universe,” Poplawski continued. “A preferred axis in our universe, inherited by the axis of rotation of its parent black hole, might have influenced the rotation dynamics of galaxies, creating the observed clockwise-counterclockwise asymmetry.

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