James Webb Telescope Detects Earliest Known Black Hole Merger, Just 740 Million Years After the Big Bang

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, contribute to scientists’ understanding of how black holes grew to be so large in the universe’s ... Read More

The science behind the Big Bang theory

This revolutionized cosmology, how we see the universe, and how we view our place within it. Scientists have ... Big Bang, if anything at all, and it is entirely possible that there was no ... Read More

Gravity Might Reverse—or Undo—the Big Bang, According to 5,000 Robots

In new research, scientists have shared data from a special observatory, and it’s lead them to theorize that dark energy may be weakening ... of the Big Bang origin of the universe. Read More

Astronomers Reveal Universe's Oldest Stars Hiding in Our Galaxy

The heavenly bodies were detected by MIT researchers in the "halo" of stars that surrounds the distant edge of our Milky Way galaxy, and are thought to have formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago, ... Read More

New models of Big Bang show that visible universe and invisible dark matter co-evolved

Physicists have long theorized that our universe may not be limited to what we can ... likely co-evolved in the moments after the Big Bang, with profound repercussions for how the universe ... Read More

Webb telescope uncovers merger of two massive black holes from early universe

The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. Scientists reported Thursday that these two gigantic and distant black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 ... Read More

The universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut

The cosmos may have something in common with a doughnut. In addition to their fried, sugary goodness, doughnuts are known for their shape, or in mathematical terms, their topology. In a universe ... Read More

A New Theory Says Dark Matter Actually Shaped the Universe

Dark matter is understood to interact “feebly” with the visible universe, but was that always true? Physicists have modeled the ... out at the end. The Big Bang may be the ultimate black ... Read More

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Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours

The first stars born after the Big Bang lived and died billions ... about 13 billion years old," Chiti told Live Science. (For comparison, the universe itself is estimated to be 13.8 billion ... Read More