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‘Cosmic fossils’ left by black holes created before the big bang may still shape the universe - Universe may have been ...

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

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The most realistic picture yet of how galaxies formed and then evolved from the beginning of time has been revealed in a ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to creating life. It’s related to the density of dark energy, which impacts star formation and the chances of life forming. The idea is that ...

Black holes that formed before the Big Bang could still exist today as ‘cosmic fossils’, potentially helping to explain the ...