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Dr Michael Guillen, a former lecturer at Harvard University, has argued that heaven exists at the "cosmic horizon", the outermost edge of the observable universe ...

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James Webb uncovers how early black holes grew unusually fast. New simulations reveal intense feeding frenzies that may explain mysterious giant black holes forming soon after the Big Bang.