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Vatican convenes astrophysicists to discuss black holes, quantum theory

Vatican City RNS Renowned physicists, including two Nobel Prize winners, will gather at the Vatican Observatory near Rome next week to ponder the unresolved mysteries of the cosmos and to honour the legacy of Georges Lemaître, the priest who first theorised the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe. “We think we have put […]

Vatican astrophysicists offer new way to study gravity after the Big Bang

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Vatican City RNS Two Catholic priests, both astrophysicists from the Vatican Observatory, have suggested a radically new mathematical approach to studying the initial moments following the Big Bang that gave birth to our universe. Little is known about the first seconds of the universe’s existence, and one of the deeper puzzles is accounting for the […]