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Explained: The Deal With Eric Lerner Saying the Big Bang Didn’t Happen

An artist's impression of how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0

Is the Universe Different In Different Directions?

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Indian Cosmologists Propose New Space Experiment to Gaze at Universe’s Dawn

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The Story of Dust, Through Space and Time

Why Two Conflicting Measurements of the Universe’s Expansion Have Scientists Excited

Elegant but elusive. Simulation of merging black holes showing gravitational waves. Credit: NASA/ESA/wikimedia

Five Myths About Gravitational Waves