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Surfing Spacetime With LISA
In September 2015, some of the most sensitive instruments ever built made a remarkable discovery: the first-ever detection of tiny ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves. Created by a pair of black holes spiralling towards each other
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Dark Stars Could Leave Scars Across The Cosmos
The scars left behind by exploding ‘dark stars’ could allow astronomers to examine the invisible Universe, a new study has found. Dark matter is the invisible substance believed to suffuse the entire Universe – though as we can only detect it through
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Helping To Solve Cosmology's Biggest Problem
Although it's well known that the Universe in which we live is expanding, scientists cannot agree on how fast that expansion is happening. The ‘Hubble constant’, which quantifies how fast objects in the Universe are moving away from us, is used to me

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