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Researchers modeled a possible origin for Webb's little red dots, reviving the question of whether they are primordial black holes from the Big Bang.
Scientific experiments at major facilities are uncovering details about the universe's primordial quark-gluon plasma.
Recent coverage examines what came before the Big Bang alongside new simulations of the early universe.
Physicists propose that a long-ignored heavy neutrino from the dawn of time may explain why matter prevailed over antimatter after the Big Bang.
Smithsonian scientists launch Lumina, a record-breaking supercomputer simulation recreating the first 2 billion years of the early universe.
Recent oxygen collisions at low energy confirm quark-gluon plasma and show evidence of jet quenching.
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Recent atom smasher experiments recreate the Big Bang's primordial soup, yielding surprising results in particle correlation data.
Physicists have utilized a quantum computer to simulate the process of matter emerging from pure energy, mimicking early universe conditions.
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A comprehensive new dataset of nearly 3,000 exploding stars challenges decades of established cosmological theory.
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Physicists at the LHC have used oxygen and neon nuclei to recreate primordial soup droplets, revealing shifting nuclear geometries from the early universe.
James Webb detects an ancient, highly energetic object powered by a hidden black hole.
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have detected a predicted quark signature within an extreme state of matter mimicking the early universe.