Carbon, the building block of life on Earth, owes its existence to the fiery crucibles of stars. Alongside elements like oxygen and iron, carbon is forged in the intense nuclear reactions of stars and subsequently scattered across the universe when these stars meet their end in spectacular supernova explosions. These elements are not static wanderers […]
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Scientists Claim Dark Energy does not Exist, and Accelerated Expansion of Universe is an Illusion Caused by Gravity slowing down time
For decades, dark energy has been one of the most enigmatic concepts in physics, introduced to explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe. This mysterious force, often described as an “antigravity” effect, was thought to make up approximately 70% of the Universe’s total energy density. However, new research challenges this assumption, proposing a groundbreaking explanation […]
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New Observations from the James Webb Telescope Confirm There’s “Something” Accelerating the Universe’s Expansion, but We Don’t Know What It Is
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delve into a mystery that has puzzled cosmologists for more than a decade: the so-called Hubble tension, which refers to the discrepancy between measurements of the universe’s current expansion rate and predictions based on standard cosmological models. These findings suggest that the faster expansion of the […]
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Tiny Black Holes Created at the Beginning of the Universe Could Be Hiding in Hollow Planets, Rocks, and Ancient Buildings on Earth
Black holes result from the collapse of massive stars after they exhaust their fuel, creating regions of spacetime where not even light can escape. However, new research suggests that the chaos of the early universe might have generated black holes much smaller than those commonly known, referred to as primordial black holes (PBHs). These tiny […]
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The Most Powerful Cosmic Rays Detected Come from Several Points Near Our Solar System
The universe is a stage filled with extreme phenomena, where temperatures and energies reach unimaginable levels. In this context, there are objects such as supernova remnants, pulsars, and active galactic nuclei that generate charged particles and gamma rays with energies far exceeding those involved in nuclear processes like fusion within stars. These particles, as direct […]
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The Sun Took Between 10 and 20 Million Years to Form from Elements Produced in Ancient Red Giants
An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago. This research, conducted at the GSI/FAIR center in Germany, provides new insights into the star formation process and helps us better understand the origins of our solar system. The findings have been […]
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Scientists Discover that Dark Energy Density in the Universe Determines the Likelihood of Intelligent Life Existing
A recent study led by scientists from Durham University explores a fundamental question in cosmology: How does the density of dark energy affect the likelihood of intelligent life arising in the Universe? To answer this question, the researchers developed a theoretical model inspired by the famous Drake Equation, which examines the ideal conditions for star […]
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The Laws of Gravity Could Be Different on a Cosmic Scale, Potentially Explaining the Mystery of the Universe’s Accelerated Expansion
The mystery of the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the great enigmas of modern physics. Twenty-five years ago, scientists discovered that the universe is expanding at an increasingly rapid rate, a phenomenon for which no definitive explanation has yet been found. Understanding this acceleration involves testing the fundamental laws of physics, particularly Albert Einstein’s […]
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Evidence Found that the Mysterious Dark Energy Driving the Expansion of the Universe is Created Inside Black Holes
In the earliest moments of the universe, nearly 14 billion years ago, a phenomenon both fascinating and mysterious occurred. At the very moment of the Big Bang, an unknown force triggered a rapid exponential expansion of the universe in its initial stage. This event, known as cosmic inflation, allowed for the creation of all the […]
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A Supermassive Black Hole Destroying Stars Solves the Mystery of Stellar Eruptions
A massive black hole has ripped apart a star, and now it’s using the remnants of that star to impact another nearby star or possibly a smaller black hole that was once safe from harm. This discovery, made through NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, helps astronomers connect two previously separate mysteries by offering […]
