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Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Data from dark-energy observatories indicate universe may 'end in a big crunch' at 33 billion years old

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

Dark matter and dark energy may only be a cosmic illusion

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. However, a new study ...

Is Dark Energy Born inside Black Holes?

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Dark matter may end our universe in a 'Big Crunch'

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Our Universe Is Held Together By Invisible Galactic Glue—And We Wouldn’t Exist Without It

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...
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The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.See an excerpt of an interview in the video aboveAstronomers know ...
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Are dark matter and dark energy only an illusion?

Ask most astronomers, and they'll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...