big bang
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Astronomers Discover First Direct Proof Of The Big Bang Expansion
Somebody’s going to win a Nobel Prize. At least that’s what the physics community is saying after the announcement on Monday that a Harvard team has found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang. It’s more proof that the Big Bang really was the beginning of it all.
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Our Universe Might Just Be Fourth-Dimensional Black Hole Vomit
Scientists are proposing a radical new way of think about how the universe began. In a new imagining of the Big Bang theory, they think it could have been the result of a four-dimensional star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole, which then proceeded to spew its guts out and, kindly, form…
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Black Hole Fuels A Quasar 60 Trillion Times As Bright As The Sun
Sometimes I’m dissatisfied with this little spinning puffball we’re stuck on, but then I see that there’s a supermassive black hole out there with a mass of two of our suns, powering an unfathomably large quasar. Luckily, it’s very, very distant.