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International Scientists Confirm 13.8 Billion Years Old Source:  ACT Research Major Space Benchmark An international team of astrophysicists has just published new research concluding that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old.  They calculated the universe's age by measuring its oldest light.  In recent years, other scientific measurements have suggested that it could be hundreds of millions of years younger.  The light measured by the international team of scientists is the afterglow from the Big Bang. Try Audible and Get Two Free Audiobooks Cosmic Microwave Background The light is called cosmic microwave background.  The light goes back 380,000 years after the birth of the universe when atoms started to form from proteins and electrons.  The picture (above) is called by the scientists a "baby photo" of the universe and of its oldest light.  According to Stony Brook University astrophysicists who co-authored the report, the ph...

Is This the Universe's Dark Matter? Source:  European Space Agency/Hubble Big Bang Subatomic Particle Researchers believe that they have identified a subatomic particle that may have formed the Universe's dark matter right after the Big Bang, nearly 14 billion years ago.  They say this is one of the strongest pieces of evidence of the very existence of dark matter.  Dark matter can be seen in the picture (above) floating like a ring in the galaxy cluster ZwC10024+1652.  The team of astronomers, studying images obtained from the Hubble telescope, believe that dark matter was produced by a collision between two huge space clusters. Dark Matter Scientists have estimated that 27% of the matter in the Universe could be dark matter.  There has been very little substantive understanding of what dark matter is until now.  A team of nuclear physicists think that dark matter could be made from the newly identified particle - the d-star hexaquark. Quarks...

Biggest Explosion Ever Experienced in the Universe - Bigger than Big Bang Source:  NASA Huge Explosion in Universe From Light Years Ago Just Detected By Global Team Astronomers using data from the most advanced NASA, European Space Agency, India and Australia telescopes have just discovered the biggest explosion that the universe has ever experienced since the Big Bang.  It happened in a galaxy 390 million light years away from the Earth.  And incredibly it took place in slow motion over hundreds of millions of years.  The science to discover this phenomena is remarkable and the details emerging on events going back into space from such a distance and time are amazing, innovative scientific discoveries. Supermassive Black Hole in the Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster The global team of astronomers say the explosion they detected released five times more energy than ever detected before.  The explosion came from a supermassive black hold in a galaxy...