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Did light exist at the beginning of the universe?

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the universe. This is because the early cosmos was so hot that "electrons were ...
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The universe's first magnetic fields were 'comparable' to the human brain — and still linger within the 'cosmic web'

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...
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JWST May Have Found The First Direct Evidence of a Primordial Black Hole

A tiny blob of red light spotted at the beginning of the Universe could represent the first direct evidence for a ...

Supermassive black holes shrouded by dust in the early universe

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Mapping the universe, faster and with the same accuracy

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...
Quanta Magazine

A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...
The Conversation

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole

Enrique Gaztanaga receives funding from the Spanish Plan Nacional (PGC2018-102021-B-100) and Maria de Maeztu (CEX2020-001058-M) grants. Enrique Gaztanaga is also a Professor at the Institute of Space ...