SCIENCE

10 incredible facts about the Big Bang Theory | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size The ultramassive, merging dynamical galaxy cluster Abell 370, with gravitational…

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JWST improves, surpasses Hubble’s view of Pismis 24 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This animation shows the Hubble image (left) and JWST image…

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Ask Ethan: Could “positive geometry” unlock the theory of everything? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This illustration shows the set of real zeroes of a…

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New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size An illustration of the first stars turning on in the…

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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy no longer a cosmological constant? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

This animation of DESI’s 3D map of the large-scale structure in the Universe, the largest such map to date, was…

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LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This animated look at black hole and neutron star populations,…

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Ask Ethan: Can “zero-point energy” power the world? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size When we see something like a ball balanced precariously atop…

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Are hidden variables real, and can they save quantum physics? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like…

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See the best night sky images from Capture the Dark 2025 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size This glorious photo, entitled “Milky Way Over Quiver Tree,” was…

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Ask Ethan: Did life begin when the Universe was room temperature? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size The panspermia hypothesis notes that on any world where life…

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