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The Universe’s Expansion May Be Slowing Down, Not Speeding Up, New Research Suggests

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...
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Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

Our Universe Is Getting ‘Colder, Deader,’ Astronomers Say

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

Scientists Recreate the Fiery Birth of the Universe in the Lab

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

Extremely massive stars forged oldest star clusters in the universe, model suggests

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...
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New model reveals how supermassive stars shaped the early universe

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

Scientists Think They Figured Out How and When the Universe Will End

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.
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Could Dark Energy’s Uneven Push Explain the Universe’s Expansion Puzzle?

There is physically, absolutely zero way that we will ever know how large the universe is,” says Sara Webb, an astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology. Yet what astronomers can measure is ...