“Cannibal Stars” and Black Holes May Have Formed in the Universe’s First Second

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a second after the Big Bang, before the first atoms existed, tiny particles may have clustered into halos of matter that later collapsed to form [...]

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