This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

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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 ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

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Cosmologists can now explore data faster than ever before with a new emulator. As astronomers continue to uncover the mysteries of the universe, their work generates increasingly vast and intricate ...

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

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