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A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

“We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." Reading time 2 minutes It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In other words, we’ve come a long way in our collective attempt to understand the nature of our universe. But one of the biggest, most enigmatic ...

"The dark structures shaping galaxies today could be relics from a time before the Big Bang." The post Physicist Proposes ...

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light speed, creating a "quark-gluon plasma" that lasted for ...

The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the Universe, may have been billions of times weaker than a small fridge magnet, with strengths comparable to magnetism generated by neurons ...

Primordial magnetic fields are hypothesised to have been generated during the earliest moments of the Universe, potentially during phase transitions such as the electroweak epoch. These ancient fields ...

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the universe's first stars. The findings could help to assess how suitable ...