Time may not exist everywhere in the universe

New research says time only exists where space is curved enough to support it, implying that our expanding universe is slowly ...
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Astronomers say short, violent feeding frenzies let some black holes balloon to billions of times the Sun’s mass far faster than anyone expected

A black hole weighing roughly 7.2 million times the mass of the Sun, observed gorging itself at more than 41 times the ...

To discover new physics, AI may need to 'unlearn' the old one

A study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics explores how a machine-learning strategy known as transfer ...
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The million-dollar race to ‘blow up’ math’s hardest equations

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

On the hunt for cosmic dawn and the universe's very first stars

After only four short years, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and observational cosmologists like Richard Ellis at ...
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Untangling the cosmic web

There is a pattern found in nature. It is indeed the largest pattern there is. It is so vast that it spans the universe, filling up its observable volume. The pattern is made of individual units in ...