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Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

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Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

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Vogelsberger grew up in Germany, and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Mainz and his PhD from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...