During cosmological inflation, the space contained in the inflationary region grows exponentially, doubling in all…
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A quantum miracle enabled the formation of neutral atoms | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
Today, the Universe has evolved into the complex, life-friendly place we know it to be…
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10 space pictures whose appearances will deceive you | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
What appears to be a double-lobed nuclear explosion is actually the result of a rare…
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Ask Ethan: Could dark energy be more negative than a cosmological constant? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
For the first several billion years of our Universe’s history, the Universe’s expansion rate was…
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Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
This map of stars in the vicinity of the identified object Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #117 — Gravitational waves and the Universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
The image above shows an illustration of the three future LISA, or Laser Interferometer Space…
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What to know about vaccines in the do-your-own-research era | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
In this photo, a patient receives a vaccine known as the Jynneos vaccine, which is…
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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe,…
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The six strongest materials on Earth are harder than diamonds | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
Atomic and molecular configurations come in a near-infinite number of possible combinations, but the specific…
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Why does physics break down at the Planck scale? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
The central idea of String Theory is that all the quanta we know of are…