Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...
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Cosmic puzzle

India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world one of its most intriguing puzzles: a massive, elegantly structured spiral galaxy that existed when the universe was barely 1.5 billion years ...
For more than a century, physicists have been trying to reconcile the smooth geometry of gravity with the jittery ...
A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from ...
Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...
The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...
A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...