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In this video, we explore common misconceptions about The Big Bang theory, covering key topics such as: - The Static Universe - Newton's Problem - Einstein's Revolution - Island Universes - The ...

Odd bursts, shifting expansion rates, and oversized early galaxies are pushing astronomers to refine physics, not rewrite it, ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion remains hotly debated ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

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Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

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It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.