If the Earth had the misfortune to either encounter a black hole or simply…
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JWST’s mysterious young galaxy: dead, or just sleeping? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
The “dead” galaxy JADES-GS-z7–01-QU, whose light comes to us from just 700 million years…
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries work in physics? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
We can imagine that there’s a mirror Universe to ours where the same rules…
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The “Big Bang” turns 75, thanks to its greatest opponent | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
Fred Hoyle was a regular on BBC radio programs in the 1940s and 1950s,…
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Ask Ethan: Will our Universe end the same way it began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes…
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As Earth orbits around the Sun, it rotates on its axis. At the present…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a…
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Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
An ordered, stable system of particles represents a low-entropy state, whereas a more randomized,…
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Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio.…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If…