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Tiny black holes from the dawn of time may be altering our planet's orbit, new study suggestsA study suggests primordial black holes may make planets and moons near us wobble. If measured experimentally, this will provide the first concrete proof such objects exist.
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Unexpected cosmic clumping could disprove our best understanding of the universeThe tension, centered around a value for cosmic lumpiness known as S8, could join the Hubble tension in dethroning our best picture of how the universe evolved.
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The 1st life in the universe could have formed seconds after the Big BangThe first life-forms capable of evolution could have appeared just moments after the Big Bang, a physicist explains.
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James Webb telescope discovers 2 of the oldest galaxies in the universeThe James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a cosmic 'peanut' and 'fluff ball' that happen to be two of the four oldest galaxies in the known universe.
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Many physicists think we live in a multiverse. But they're getting a simple math rule wrong.Our universe seems to be perfectly suited for life. But anyone who claims that's evidence of a multiverse is falling prey to a logical fallacy.
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Dark matter may have its own 'invisible' periodic table of elementsDark matter may come in multiple particles and weights, similar to the ordinary elements on the periodic table, a new theory suggests.
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James Webb telescope finds an 'extreme' glow coming from 90% of the universe's earliest galaxiesThe universe's early galaxies are way brighter than they should be. The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of brightly glowing gas around 90% of primordial galaxies may explain why.
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Mysterious 'fossilized' bubble 10,000 times the size of the Milky Way could be a relic from the Big BangAstronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup.
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$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 scientists who study the large scale structure of the universeMikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.
