These two projections show the primordial sky in microwave light as seen by ESA’s Planck…
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10 reality-bending facts about the scientific Multiverse | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
If each time a quantum decision were made, our timeline split to allow for two…
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Ask Ethan: What does it mean to live in a quantum universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
By creating two entangled photons from a pre-existing system and separating them by great distances,…
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Is dark energy weakening? DESI’s results are ambiguous | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
This fun graphic illustrates the tension on Λ, Einstein’s cosmological constant, exerted by combining supernova…
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Ask Ethan: Can we turn Einstein’s equations into Newton’s law? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
There may never be another Einstein or another Newton, but we can all learn to…
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Science’s great paradox: we don’t know what we don’t know until we look | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This side-by-side view shows the same object, the Pillars of Creation, as captured by JWST…
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How to tell which edge of a galaxy is tipped towards you | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
This image shows the dusty galaxy NGC 4526, the galaxy that famously hosted a bright…
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Ask Ethan: Why do galaxies still collide in the expanding Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
The pair of interacting galaxies in the process of a merger, known as IC 1623,…
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Scientists have definitively taken us beyond the Big Bang | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
A tremendous revolution has occurred in the past four decades concerning our ultimate cosmic origins.…
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Ask Ethan: Does the multiverse explain our fundamental constants? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2025
We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic…