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How old is the universe?

19 April 2021

There are two competing estimates on the age of the universe.

Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter

12 December 2017

One way to solve the dark matter problem is to chalk it up to black holes formed moments after the big bang, but they can’t account for all the dark matter

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How old is the universe?

Ancient black holes ruled out as source of all dark matter

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