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This Theory Could Breathe New Life Into The Hunt For Dark Matter
Physicists don’t know where most of the universe’s apparent mass has gone, and attempts to find it have so far failed. But a proposed particle born out of the universe’s chaotic first moments may provide a candidate and a reasonable way to look for it.
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Hints Of The First Stars Seen In 13-Billion-Year-Old Oxygen
Scientists have spotted 13-billion-year-old oxygen in a distant galaxy – a signal of stars forming during the universe’s earliest days.
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Wild Theory Suggests Heavy Metals Came From Parasitic Black Holes
If you were to rank the wildest things in the universe, there are a few obvious contenders: Gamma rays, fast radio bursts and quasars, for example. But no list would be complete without black holes and the black hole’s less-dense cousins, the neutron star. These hyper-compressed things can do some mind-boggling warping to the shape…
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‘Inflatable Dark Matter’ Could Explain Why We See Less Than Many Theories Predict
Many wonderful theories that explain the evolution of the universe fail because they predict more dark matter than is actually out there. Now a new paper proposes one event in the early universe that would reduce the amount of dark matter in all the theories.