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Groundbreaking CERN experiments give physicists unprecedented new insights into the mysteries of the universe – The Debrief

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Major recent developments, driven by support from CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, are providing deeper insights into the fundamental nature of our universe. The ongoing experiments at CERN are aimed at exploring the smallest building blocks of matter and the forces that govern them. By revealing the dynamics of these forces, scientists can … Read more

Milestone achieved in unraveling the fundamental forces of the universe at the Large Hadron Collider

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Building on their extensive involvement at CERN, the University of Rochester team recently achieved “incredibly precise” measurements of the electroweak mixing angle, a key component of the Standard Model of particle physics. Credit: Samuel Joseph Hertzog; Julien Marius Ordan Researchers from the University of Rochester, working with the CMS Collaboration at CERNhave made significant progress … Read more

Wild theory suggests dark matter could make stars immortal

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Stars near the center of our galaxy could be forever fueled by dark matter, according to a team of astronomers who recently studied the distant light sources. Florida family sues NASA over home damaged by space debris The group of stars, known as S-cluster stars, are located just three light-years from the center of the … Read more

Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe stun scientists

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Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, compiled from three NIRCam filter bands aboard the James Webb Space Telescope. They are remarkably compact at red wavelengths (giving them the name “little red dots”), with some evidence of spatial structure at blue wavelengths. Credit: Bingjie Wang/Penn State; JWST/NIRSpec. … Read more

The surprising behavior of black holes in an expanding universe

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Credit: AI-generated image A physicist who studies black holes has discovered that in an expanding universe, Einstein’s equations require that the rate of expansion of the universe at the event horizon of each black hole must be constant, and the same for all black holes. This in turn means that the only energy on the … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope Sees ‘Cosmic Gems’ in the Extremely Early Universe (Video)

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered star clusters in the ‘Cosmic Gems’ arc that existed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. This marks the first discovery of star clusters in a young galaxy, as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was less than 500 million years old. The … Read more

‘The early universe is nothing like what we expected’: James Webb telescope reveals ‘new understanding’ of how galaxies formed at cosmic dawn

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A series of glistening, golden dots in the center of the image show an ancient galaxy glowing in the early universe, surrounding by countless bright stars and galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST discovered the five proto-globular clusters – swarms of millions of stars held together by gravity – within the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Sun’s birth. Big bang. The … Read more

Celestial discovery: Astronomers see a supermassive black hole awaken in real time

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Astronomers are witnessing a never-before-seen spectacle in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers took note of an otherwise unremarkable galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. A sudden spike in the galaxy’s brightness … Read more

Inexplicably, a massive black hole from the origin of the universe refutes previous explanations

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The cosmic puzzle created by evidence of apparently enormous black holes in the very early universe continues to deepen. Observations by the JWST of one such anomaly, known as J1120+0641, indicate that the once favored explanation for how these objects could emit so much light so soon after the Big Bang is unlikely, forcing astronomers … Read more

Scientists discover a mysterious object at the center of our Milky Way

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By Stacy Liberatore for Dailymail.com 5:40 PM June 18, 2024, updated 10:16 PM June 18, 2024 Scientists have discovered a mysterious object at the center of our Milky Way that doesn’t meet the criteria of anything else in the Milky Way. The team found that the object emits microwaves, indicating that it contains dust and … Read more