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A theoretical phenomenon proposed by famed physicist Stephen Hawking may have changed the shape of the universe, new research proposes. In the 1970s, Hawking introduced a groundbreaking concept: Black ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...

Jeremiah Ostriker, an astrophysicist who helped set off a revolution in humankind's view of the universe, revealing it to be a vaster, darker realm than the one we can see, ruled by invisible forms of ...

Dark matter and gas in the universe. There may be more dark matter than we think. Credit: Illustris, CC BY-SA No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word.

The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.