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Graduate Do the black holes have infinite mass ?
- kapoor_kapoor
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Graduate Does Black Hole Information Storage Suggest a Holographic Universe?
- alex2515
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Graduate How we are still able to detect CMB photons?
- CuriousNilave
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Graduate Is the Total Energy of the Universe Really Zero?
- thinkandmull
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Graduate Why is the Universe (nearly) flat?
- wabbit
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Undergrad Galactic Black Holes: % & Types Explored
- Omega0
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High School Dark matter, what do we need to have here?
- Jose Leal
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Graduate Is there a size or duration limit on fields having mass?
- slatts
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Graduate The case for [or against] dark matter
- Chronos
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Undergrad How the satellite parts get damaged
- praveena
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High School Lunar and Solar eclipse - same times a year?
- christian0710
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High School Big Bang & Infinite Universe: Evidence & Discrepancies
- Rupert Young
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Graduate Kepler's Second Law - reaching an unsolvable equation?
- Upsilon
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High School Viscosity of Space: Theory & Evidence
- Kevin Haney
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Graduate Is Galilean Creation a Viable Alternative to Inflationary Cosmology?
- Chronos
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Undergrad Neil deGrass Tyson "Orbital Erosion"
- mgkii
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High School The sun at midnight from North Pole
- Pjpic
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Undergrad Age of the observable Universe?
- G.D.
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Graduate Universal Gravity: Does It Affect Us Beyond the CEH Line?
- Gaz
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Graduate Understanding the Effects of Black Hole Collisions
- praveena
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Truly Accelerating Based on Redshift Observations?
- Vidar T
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Undergrad Help with Venus Transit AU calculations
- YarnJunior
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Graduate Understanding Coherent Large Scale Modes in Power Spectra
- shirin
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Graduate Will the Universe Collapse Soon?
- wolram
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Graduate Closed Universe: Can Universe Be Considered a System?
- Neptune2235
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Graduate Quantum tunnel into becoming solid iron
- Stephanus
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Undergrad Peanut-shaped near-Earth asteroid imaged by radar
- Spinnor
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Graduate Why is there more matter than antimatter at this point?
- Liza_semi-nerd
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Graduate How can the observable universe be 46 billion lyrs in size?
- Rupert Young
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How is the ISS Captured Using a Telephoto Lens?
- Andy Resnick
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Graduate The End of the Universe: Heat Death and the Fate of Matter
- Stephanus
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Undergrad New rocky exoplanet discovered is the closest to Earth
- PWiz
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Graduate Inflation and Monopoles: Exploring the Mysteries of Cosmic Expansion
- DiracPool
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Undergrad How did planets get their Orbits?
- Iseous
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Graduate Can LQC be distinguished from normal inflation through observational windows?
- palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Predicted Heat Death of the Universe
- JonathanCollins
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Graduate Phase Space & SM: Universe Defined?
- Jimster41
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Undergrad Black Holes: Gravity & Formation Explained
- AF HUNZAI
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High School What is the center of the universe?
- KylieVegas
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Unfalsifiable Theories Beyond the Big Bang?
- anorlunda
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Graduate Infrared Yoga: Is It Possible for Aliens to Learn?
- kos
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Graduate Did Time Exist Before the Big Bang?
- Robert P
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Undergrad Astrophysics uses wave optics or geometrical optics?
- Christian Grey
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Graduate Dark matter particle search at CERN vs cosmology simulations
- ohannuks
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Graduate Is Terraforming Uranus And Neptune Possible?
- Jupiter60
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Graduate Newtonian Friedmann Equation, Referance frame, Homogeneity
- RyanH42
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Graduate Why Photons Can't Explain Dark Matter
- Docon
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Undergrad How do we know the universe is infinite?
- Rupert Young
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Graduate What actually happens when the black hole takes the photons
- Preslav
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Graduate Which dimension does the black hole belongs?
- praveena
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High School How Fast Is the Moon Moving Away from Earth?
- elistein
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Insights LCDM Cosmological Model in Simplified Math (Part 3) - Comments
- Jorrie
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Graduate Can Black Holes Truly Absorb All Matter and Energy?
- Shailesh Pincha
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Insights Approximate LCDM Expansion in Simplified Math (Part 2) - Comments
- Jorrie
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Graduate Earth's Orbit & Fleming's Left Hand Rule
- EtherURWithMe
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Undergrad Term for space in front of the expanding universe.
- Federico777
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Graduate Expansion is a compounded error based on a wrong assumption?
- Dry
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Graduate Measuring the entropy of the universe?
- noahcharris
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Graduate Variable Speed Of Light In General Relativity
- Paradigm Shift
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Graduate New Theory: Dark Matter Acts Like Pion - Evidence Found
- RyanH42
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Undergrad How do they know distance of the original standard candle?
- james gander
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Undergrad Earth-Like Planet orbits Sun-Like Star
- Quotidian
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Graduate Critical density: question correction
- Luminescent
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Graduate From Aeon to Zeon to Zeit, simplifying the standard cosmic model
- marcus
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High School Does theory of expansion effect gravity?
- Shankar Dev
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Graduate Is there a theoretical min. size/mass limit to a black hole?
- DDH
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Undergrad Is the Fermi Gamma Ray Detector Capable of Detecting Individual Photons?
- anorlunda
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Graduate Utility of observational Hubble parameter data on DE
- Garth
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Undergrad Guidelines for including "atmosphere" in a body's "diameter"
- 1977ub
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Graduate Cumulative number counts of galaxy clusters
- mahya
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Graduate Why do we believe dark matter exists?
- badseed
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Graduate What does it mean to have a Black Hole Spike?
- majormuss
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Graduate Are Saturn's Rings Caused by Fractal Structures?
- Jimster41
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Graduate Photons and Space-Time Expansion
- CjCastro
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Undergrad Intersecting Orbits of Binary Stars: A Visual Guide
- RingNebula57
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High School Is it possible to keep a rip in space open? All info welcome
- nrot
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Undergrad Do quasars and blazars exist today?
- Jupiter60
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Graduate What's the Dark Matter Density in Universe?
- RyanH42
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Graduate Does space expansion affect the rate of time?
- Gerinski
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Graduate Non-Flat ΛCDM Model: Consistency with BOSS Result on Universe Curvature
- wolram
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Insights Approximate LCDM Expansion in Simplified Math - Comments
- Jorrie
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Undergrad Function driven solar system model.
- abdullahi abass
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Graduate Witness the Majesty of the Ring Nebula: 100% Crop & (Nearly) Full Frame
- Andy Resnick
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Undergrad How can we see galaxies behind other galaxies?
- theironmaiden
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Undergrad What Causes Gravity in the Cosmos?
- thecosmos123456
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High School Newbie question.... The Big Bang & The Observable Universe (and time)
- revv
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Undergrad Calculating mass of Milky way Galaxy
- RyanH42
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Graduate Similarities and differences Black Holes and Big Bang
- Gerinski
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Graduate Is Dark matter homogeneous in Universe?
- RyanH42
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High School How far can transmissions go in space?
- cellurl
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Graduate Does gravity get destroyed in a black hole ?
- lee sarson
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High School Is Pluto Really Bigger Than Eris? New Horizons Settles the Debate.
- CygnusX-1
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Stargazing Is there a proper way to clean a telescope mirror?
- SofiaMo
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Graduate Has the Cosmological Constant Mystery Been Solved?
- RyanH42
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Undergrad Big Bang Expansion Creates Planets?
- Onehope
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Graduate Proportions and other Stuff about Expansion
- ComaBerenices
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Graduate So my question would be: Is Dark Matter a superfluid?
- wolram
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So is this scary? (Black Hole in binary system)
- Jimster41
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Graduate Why isnt the universe full of quark stars?
- Mustang11
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Graduate Planetoid formation, spherical or not.
- anorlunda
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