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"This gives us a new way to rule out certain black hole scenarios for dark matter." New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in ...

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The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

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In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

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Dark matter has baffled physicists for nearly a century, quietly shaping our universe's unseen framework. Invisible yet influential, it provides the gravity necessary to hold galaxies together, ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

Piscataway, NJ, May 13, 2025 - IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, today announced the commemoration of the IEEE Milestone Project Echo, ...