Over the course of the past several decades, cosmologists have used countless observations to devise a biography of the universe, known as the Standard Model. The model proposes that ripples in dark matter, magnified by time and gravity, caused clumps of matter to congeal into a web of intersecting filaments, eventually spawning stars, galaxies, black holes, and structure. But like the cosmos, the Standard Model is full of black holes — missing pieces of the puzzle, whose attraction is undeniable to astronomers.
Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era
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