Artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe. The Solar System gives way to…
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If the Big Bang wasn’t the first thing ever, what caused it? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose…
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The Hubble tension: still unresolved, despite new measurements | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
The ‘raisin bread’ model of the expanding Universe, where relative distances increase as the…
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Ask Ethan: Could we build a collider bigger than Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
Particle accelerators can either be linear, where magnets collimate beams of particles while electric…
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3 big lessons from Einstein’s most famous equation: E=mc² | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This 1934 photograph shows Einstein in front of a blackboard, deriving special relativity for…
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5 big surprises when comparing the worlds in our Solar System | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
Here in our own Solar System, a single star anchors the system, where inner,…
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Ask Ethan: Can we detect dark matter if it’s truly collisionless? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This image shows the insides of a prototype Time Projection Chamber (TPC), one of…
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Modern astrophysics answers Isaac Newton’s oldest question | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This illustration of the dust-rich and comet-rich exoplanetary system, Epsilon Eridani, has a lot…
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Ask Ethan: Did black holes form directly from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This set of illustrations explains how a large black hole can form from the…
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10 revolutionary finds from JWST’s first 2 years of science | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This rotating spiral galaxy, NGC 1512, is located only 30 million light-years away, and…