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The mystery of dark matter just refuses to be solved [Astrophysics]
Dark matter almost certainly exists – otherwise, galaxy clusters wouldn’t have sufficient gravity to hold themselves together. It was hoped dwarf galaxies could confirm the leading dark matter theories. But a new study has drawn a big, frustrating blan… Continue reading
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The Higgs boson might explain the origins of the universe and dark energy [Mad Science]
We still haven’t found the Higgs boson, the hypothetical particle that explains why other particles possess mass. But that might not be the only cosmic mystery the Higgs can solve. It could also explain how the universe got its shape.
That’s the theor… Continue reading
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Black holes may have been fundamental building blocks of the early universe [Cosmology]
Most astronomers agree that at the center of every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. But how did these gravitational monsters form? Now it seems that they may have been here since the beginning of time.
At least, they’ve been here as long as the… Continue reading
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The universe is at least 250 times bigger than it looks [Cosmology]
The universe is so unimaginably large that parts of it are literally impossible to see, because their light is too distant to reach us even after 14 billion years. Now we might know just how big the cosmos really is. Turns out everything we can see is … Continue reading
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Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang? [Cosmology]
The current cosmological consensus is that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang. But a legendary physicist says he’s found the first evidence of an eternal, cyclic cosmos.The Big Bang model holds that everything that now compris… Continue reading
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Book: The Poincaré Conjecture
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O’Shea. Walker & Company, 2007. In The Poincaré Conjecture, Donal O’Shea explains a conjecture in topology from 1904 that had remained unsolved for nearly a century. Aside … Continue reading
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