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'Physics itself disappears': How theoretical physicist Thomas Hertog helped Stephen Hawking produce his final, most radical theory of everythingThomas Hertog tells us how he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on his final theorem — a Darwinian revolution in physics that explains the origin of time.
By Ben Turner Published
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James Webb telescope finds carbon at the dawn of the universe, challenging our understanding of when life could have emergedThe James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That could mean life began much earlier too, a new study argues.
By Ben Turner Published
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James Webb telescope discovers earliest galaxy in the known universe — and its shockingly bigThe James Webb Space Telescope has detected the two earliest, most distant galaxies in the known universe, dating to just 300 million years after the Big Bang. The detection of even earlier galaxies is likely to follow.
By Brandon Specktor Published
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Scientists may have finally solved the problem of the universe’s 'missing' black holesPrimordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests that not enough of the miniature black holes formed for this to be the case.
By Ben Turner Published
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James Webb telescope sees 'birth' of 3 of the universe's earliest galaxies in world-1st observationsThe James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the birth of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe for the first time ever, new research hints.
By Brandon Specktor Published
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Newfound 'glitch' in Einstein's relativity could rewrite the rules of the universe, study suggestsEinstein's theory of general relativity is our best description of the universe at large scales, but a new observation that reports a "glitch" in gravity around ancient structures could force it to be modified.
By Ben Turner Published
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The James Webb telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars in the universeThe James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on galaxy GN-z11, which existed just 430 million years after the Big Bang, to reveal what may be some of the oldest stars in the universe.
By Keith Cooper Published
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James Webb telescope detects oldest 'dead' galaxy in the known universe — and its death could challenge cosmologyAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the oldest "dead" galaxy ever observed, at just 700 million years after the Big Bang. The stalled-out relic defies explanation by our current knowledge of the early cosmos.
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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James Webb telescope finds ancient galaxy larger than our Milky Way, and it's threatening to upend cosmologyAstronomers believe the first galaxies formed around giant halos of dark matter. But a newly discovered galaxy dating to roughly 13 billion years ago mysteriously appeared long before that process should have occurred.
By Ben Turner Published
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