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The Beginning Of The Universe Explained

I’ve never been exactly sure of how the universe came to be — big bang boom thang a lang — but I’m certainly glad it shaped out the way it has. If you want to finally understand the beginnings of our universe, watch the video by CERN physicist Tom Whyntie.


The Universe Is 80 Million Years Older Than We Thought

We’ve known for ages that the universe is around 13.25 billion years old for a while, but a new study is tweaking that number slightly. Findings by the European Space Agency’s Planck space probe show that the universe is about 80 million years older than previously thought, bringing the total to 13.81 billion.


5 Amazing Scientific Discoveries We Don’t Know What To Do With

Every day, scientists make discoveries that change the way we live. But sometimes, just sometimes, they achieve results that are so extraordinary or unexpected that they literally don’t know what to do with them. Here are five of the most puzzling.


The Biggest Ever Black Hole Weighs 17 Billion Times More Than The Sun

Every spiral galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its centre, so they’re no big deal, right? Wrong: scientists have just discovered the biggest ever black hole, which weighs 17 billion times as much as our sun — and it throws previous thinking about the evolution of our universe into question.


How To Tell If The Universe Is A Computer Simulation

It’s a famous question among academic philosophers and drunken students alike: how can we be sure we’re not living in a gigantic computer simulation? Fortunately, researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany think they’ve cracked it.


This Is The Most Detailed Image Of The Universe Ever Captured

NASA has just published the most detailed view of the universe ever taken. It’s called the Extreme Deep Field (XDF) and was created from 10 years of Hubble Space Telescope photographs. The incredible image shows some the oldest galaxies ever observed by humans, going 13.2 billion years back in time.


How To Simulate The Universe On Your Laptop

The universe is a huge, complex, beautiful-yet-terrifying place, and we’ve spent a lot of time studying it. While some of the more complex models of the universe call for supercomputers and lots of processor power, MinutePhysics has one you can run on your laptop.


Mathematic Proof That The Universe Had A Beginning

There are probably more theories floating around to explain the birth, life and death of the universe than for any other scientific concept. Some scientists champion the idea of the Big Bang that created everything around us, others postulate that that we live in a steady state universe with no beginning or end. Now, maths has set one thing straight: our universe definitely had a start.


Physicists Build Big Bang In A Box

Sitting on a bench at the University of Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang.


Physicist Says 50% Chance Time Will End Within Earth’s Lifespan

And now, for your pleasant Wednesday morning headline. A UC Berkeley physicist says that the laws of physics are simply incompatible with a model of the universe in which things just keep on going forever. So, bad news: they won’t.


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