Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New results suggest that the so-called cosmic “dark ages,” the muted era between the ...

Black holes formed before the Big Bang may still exist as cosmic fossils, offering new clues about dark matter and the origin ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...

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