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The Sound of the Big Bang Might Be Telling Us Our Galaxy Lives in a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Cosmic Hole
Imagine waking up one day to find out you live inside a vast, invisible bubble — a region of space so vast it stretches a ...
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Did light exist at the beginning of the universe?
However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...
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Dark energy might be fading - so what does that mean?
Evidence is mounting that cosmic dark energy, long thought constant, may weaken with time - potentially altering the fate of ...
Is the Cosmic Microwave Background a Huge Mistake?
In the Big Bang Theory, the cosmic microwave background — microwave-range radiation that floats through the entire universe ...
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Sound Waves From the Big Bang Suggest Earth Is Sitting Inside of a Void
Learn about the theory suggesting that the Earth sits inside of a void, which may explain why the universe appears to expand ...
The axion may help clean up the messy business of dark matter
But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...
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Astronomers see the 1st stars dispel darkness 13 billion years ago at 'Cosmic Dawn'
"Using the new common signal, we can determine how much of what we're seeing is cosmic glare from light bouncing off the hood ...
Our Galaxy May Lie in a 'Mysterious Giant Hole'
Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.
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Is the Universe shaped like a doughnut?
Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...