big bang
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‘Green Pea’ Galaxies May Have Reheated The Universe After Cosmic Dark Age
Swiss scientists may have found the answer to a troubling mystery about the early evolution of our universe. After the Big Bang, the universe cooled down for a billion years in a kind of cosmic dark age. But then it mysteriously reheated. Electrons and protons that had been happily joined in hydrogen atoms were ripped…
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The LHC Is Now Colliding Lead At The Highest-Ever Energies
The Large Hadron Collider has been back online and pushing the limits of physics again for a few months now. But it’s about to enter a new phase, colliding lead ions at twice the energy that any collider has ever achieved in the past.
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Big Bang Discovery Researchers Backtrack On Original Claims
Remember how a Harvard team found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang? Well, now it’s published its findings — and it’s backtracking on its original claims.
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Why The Big Bang Discovery Is Even More Important Than You Think
As you’ve probably heard, yesterday a team of scientists identified evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang , a finding which helps explain how the entire Universe originated. Amazing as that sounds, it’s way more important than you even imagine.