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Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called “voids”) and dense regions where the galaxies exist. This distribution is called the cosmic web. The ...

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

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Recent studies suggest a revolutionary perspective on dark matter, proposing that it behaves like a cosmic superfluid, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an awe-inspiring picture of the Red Spider Nebula, disclosing intricate, ...

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Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the Universe, may have been billions of times weaker than a small fridge magnet, with strengths comparable to magnetism generated by neurons ...