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After 3.5 million-year hiatus, the largest comet ever discovered is headed to us

The gargantuan Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet will strafe Saturn’s orbit in 2031. Scientists are stoked. An enormous comet — possibly the largest one ever detected — is barreling toward the inner solar system with an estimated arrival time of 10 years from now, according to new research published on the preprint server arXiv.org. The comet, known as the …

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We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking’s most far-out ideas

We may soon be able to test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial theories, new research suggests. In the 1970s, Hawking proposed that dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most matter in the cosmos, may be made of black holes formed in the earliest moments of the Big Bang. Now, three astronomers have developed a theory that explains …

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