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New research reveals that gravity can produce light

Researchers have found evidence that the early universe’s unusual conditions may have caused space-time to move violently enough to spontaneously produce radiation. Despite gravity being one of the most fundamental forces in the universe, this exciting discovery makes us reevaluate our understanding of gravity as a whole. The fundamental hypothesis underlying the idea that gravity […]

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Amazing James Webb telescope photo shows the warping of space

A brand-new image of the universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, shows how the cosmos is actually warped. The most powerful space telescope ever created, which orbits 1 million miles from Earth, was pointed at a group of galaxies located about 6.3 billion light-years distant by astronomers. This galaxy cluster, known as SDSS […]

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What is dark energy?

There are billions of galaxies with billions of stars and celestial bodies inside of them, yet the universe still seems like a vast emptiness for the most part of it. However, that’s not entirely true, because of the existence of dark matter and dark energy. Scientists have used sophisticated methods like particle colliders to look […]

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Webb telescope finds massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist

Scientists have discovered what appear to be six huge galaxies from the early universe. The objects are so huge that they may alter our understanding of how galaxies form. The findings, published in Nature, make use of data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared-sensing equipment to reconstruct what the cosmos looked like 13.5 billion […]

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How many stars are there in the universe?

In order to know how many stars are in the universe, we will first need to find out the number of galaxies. But is this something we can calculate at all? Simply said, the number of galaxies in the universe will be equal to the universe’s size times the typical density of galaxies. Accurately estimating […]