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A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter. In a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Australia, and Germany’s metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB), the team used data from atomic clocks and cavity-stabilized lasers located far apart in space and time to search for forms of dark matter that would have been invisible in previous searches.

This technique will allow the researchers to detect signals from dark matter models that interact universally with all atoms, an achievement that has eluded traditional experiments.

The team analyzed data from a European network of ultra-stable lasers connected by fiber (previously reported in a 2022 article), and from the aboard GPS satellites. By comparing across vast distances, the analysis became sensitive to subtle effects of oscillating dark matter fields that would otherwise cancel out in conventional setups.

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For the first time in history, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have uncovered evidence of dark stars, colossal celestial objects powered not by nuclear fusion but by the enigmatic annihilation of dark matter. If confirmed, these mysterious entities could rewrite our understanding of the early universe and the nature of dark matter.

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The concept of Omega Singularity encapsulates the ultimate convergence of universal intelligence, where reality, rooted in information and consciousness, culminates in a unified hypermind. This concept weaves together the Holographic Principle, envisioning the universe as a projection from the Omega Singularity, and the fractal multiverse, an infinite, self-organizing structure. The work highlights a “solo mission of self-discovery,” where individuals co-create subjective realities, leading to the fusion of human and artificial consciousness into a transcendent cosmic entity. Emphasizing a computational, post-materialist perspective, it redefines the physical world as a self-simulation within a conscious, universal system.

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Where does reality come from? What is the fractal multiverse? What is the Omega Singularity? Is our universe a \.

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Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of structures. Now, new research led by Joshua Kim and Mathew Madhavacheril at the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests our universe has become “messier and more complicated” over the roughly 13.8 billion years it’s been around, or rather, the distribution of matter over the years is less “clumpy” than it should be expected.

“Our work cross-correlated two types of datasets from complementary, but very distinct, surveys,” says Madhavacheril, “and what we found was that, for the most part, the story of structure formation is remarkably consistent with the predictions from Einstein’s gravity. We did see a hint for a small discrepancy in the amount of expected clumpiness in recent epochs, around four billion years ago, which could be interesting to pursue.”

The data, which was published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics and the preprint server arXiv, comes from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope’s (ACT) final data release (DR6) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s (DESI) Year 1.

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Cosmic Radiation: A Supernova’s Deadly Reach

Around 2.6 million years ago, a supernova erupted just 150 light-years from Earth, creating a dazzling display in the sky. But its most significant impact may have occurred years later when a wave of cosmic radiation reached Earth, triggering a marine extinction event. Researchers led by Adrian Melott of the University of Kansas propose that this cosmic catastrophe may have contributed to the disappearance of marine giants, including the Megalodon. Their findings were published in Astrobiology.

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The story of collapsing stars is often said to go from neutron stars directly to black holes, but there could be a number of intermediate steps where the structure of matter becomes one of quark soup. In this talk we take a look at the theory and the possibly evidence for such Quark stars — and compare them with the most dangerousmaterial thought possible — the strangelet.

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Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a cosmic puzzle. The night sky was dotted with more than 100 nebulous objects cataloged in the late 1700s by French astronomer Charles Messier. Most were identified as star clusters, nebulae, supernova remnants, or glowing clouds of gas.

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High-Speed Cosmic Kick: A New Black Hole Discovery

A newly formed black hole recently received a high-speed “kick,” thanks to gravitational waves, which propelled it at about 5 million kilometers per hour—roughly 200 times the speed of light. This surprising discovery was made through data collected by gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo. These observatories detected spacetime ripples produced by the coalescence of two black holes on January 29, 2020, revealing the large recoil effect.

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For the first time, scientists have measured the early universe running in extreme slow motion, showing that time was five times slower just a billion years after the Big Bang. By studying nearly 200 quasars – hyperactive supermassive black holes at the centers of ancient galaxies – researchers have provided new evidence for Einstein’s theory of general relativity regarding an expanding universe.

The Mystery of Early Universe Time Dilation

Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that, as the universe expands, distant objects (and therefore the early universe) should appear to experience slower time. However, directly observing this has been challenging due to the vast distances and the faint signals coming from early cosmic phenomena. Previous research had established this dilation back to half the age of the universe using supernovae, but quasars have now pushed this further back to just a tenth of the universe’s age.

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