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13 November 2025What if the big bang was hotter than expected ?Researchers from UCLouvain, in collaboration with Caltech (United States) and the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Germany), have just proposed a new way to tell the story of the universe’s beginnings. Their model challenges the idea of a cold and empty Big Bang: according to them, the universe was “hot” from its very first fractions of a second thanks to a particle called the axion.
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Tracking upgrades and results of muon imaging in more than 200 m depth
Gábor Nyitrai, Fabio Ambrosino, Giuseppa Anzelmo, Luigi Cimmino, David Iacopini, Maria Alessandra Letizia, Leopoldo Repola, and Giulio Saracino
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