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At the dawn of time: MIT physicists link dark matter to ‘supercharged’ microscopic black holes

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Image of a primordial black hole forming amid a sea of ​​hot, color-charged quarks and gluons a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Credit: Kaća Bradonjić According to the researchers, the universe could have produced microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge in the first quintillionth of a second. MIT … Read more

The James Webb Telescope sees two monstrous black holes merge at the dawn of time, challenging our understanding of the universe

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This image shows the environment of the galaxy system ZS7 as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. A zoomed-in look at the merging black hole system is inset in yellow.

Astronomers have taken advantage of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect the furthest pair of colliding black holes in the known universe. The cosmic monsters – each estimated to be around 50 million suns in size – were discovered more than 13 billion light-years away, at a time just 740 million years after … Read more