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1673:, should they exist. The authors note, however, that if primordial black holes cause a false vacuum collapse, then it should have happened long before humans evolved on Earth. A subsequent study in 2017 indicated that the bubble would collapse into a primordial black hole rather than originate from it, either by ordinary collapse or by bending space in such a way that it breaks off into a new universe. In 2019, it was found that although small non-spinning black holes may increase true vacuum nucleation rate, rapidly spinning black holes will stabilize false vacuums to decay rates lower than expected for flat space-time. 760:
of total energy zero. In the absence of gravitation, this is no problem, no matter how small the energy-density difference; all one has to do is make the bubble big enough, and the volume/surface ratio will do the job. In the presence of gravitation, though, the negative energy density of the true vacuum distorts geometry within the bubble with the result that, for a small enough energy density, there is no bubble with a big enough volume/surface ratio. Within the bubble, the effects of gravitation are more dramatic. The geometry of space-time within the bubble is that of
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The diagrams show the uncertainty ranges of Higgs boson and top quark masses as oval-shaped lines. Underlying colors indicate if the electroweak vacuum state is likely to be stable, merely long-lived or completely unstable for given combination of masses. The "electroweak vacuum decay" hypothesis was
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The second special case is decay into a space of vanishing cosmological constant, the case that applies if we are now living in the debris of a false vacuum that decayed at some early cosmic epoch. This case presents us with less interesting physics and with fewer occasions for rhetorical excess than
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In general, gravitation makes the probability of vacuum decay smaller; in the extreme case of very small energy-density difference, it can even stabilize the false vacuum, preventing vacuum decay altogether. We believe we understand this. For the vacuum to decay, it must be possible to build a bubble
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Bubble wall has a finite thickness, depending on ratio between energy barrier and energy gain obtained by creating true vacuum. In the case when potential barrier height between true and false vacua is much smaller than energy difference between vacua, shell thickness become comparable with critical
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A bubble wall, propagating outward at nearly the speed of light, has a finite thickness, depending on the ratio between the energy barrier and the energy gain obtained by creating true vacuum. In the case when the potential barrier height between true and false vacua is much smaller than the energy
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and structures comprising them, to subtle change in some cosmological parameters, mostly depending on the potential difference between true and false vacuum. Some false vacuum decay scenarios are compatible with the survival of structures like galaxies, stars, and even biological life, while others
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The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it.
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In a 2021 paper by Rostislav Konoplich and others, it was postulated that the area between a pair of large black holes on the verge of colliding could provide the conditions to create bubbles of "true vacuum". Intersecting surfaces between these bubbles could then become infinitely dense and form
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Small bubbles of true vacuum can be inflated to critical size by providing energy, although required energy densities are several orders of magnitude larger than what is attained in any natural or artificial process. It is also thought that certain environments can catalyze bubble formation by
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A paper by Coleman and de Luccia that attempted to include simple gravitational assumptions into these theories noted that if this was an accurate representation of nature, then the resulting universe "inside the bubble" in such a case would appear to be extremely unstable and would almost
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collisions have been observed at much higher energies than those produced in terrestrial particle accelerators, these experiments should not, at least for the foreseeable future, pose a threat to our current vacuum. Particle accelerators have reached energies of only approximately eight
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If measurements of the Higgs boson and top quark suggest that our universe lies within a false vacuum of this kind, this would imply that the bubble's effects will propagate across the universe at nearly the speed of light from its origin in space-time. A direct calculation within the
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If our universe is in a false vacuum state rather than a true vacuum state, then the decay from the less stable false vacuum to the more stable true vacuum (called false vacuum decay) could have dramatic consequences. The effects could range from complete cessation of existing
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except that its group of symmetries is O(3, 2) rather than O(4, 1). Although this space-time is free of singularities, it is unstable under small perturbations, and inevitably suffers gravitational collapse of the same sort as the end state of a contracting
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micro-black holes. These would in turn evaporate by emitting Hawking radiation in the 10 milliseconds or so before the larger black holes collided and devoured any bubbles or micro-black holes in their way. The theory could be tested by looking for the
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Elementary particles entering the wall will likely decay to other particles or black holes. If all decay paths lead to very massive particles, the energy barrier of such a decay may result in a stable bubble of false vacuum (also known as a
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could drastically change the stability landscape division lines, rendering previous stability and metastability criteria incorrect. Reanalysis of 2015-2018 LHC run in 2022 has yielded a slightly lower top quark mass of
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comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.
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we live in. It is possible that a physical vacuum state is a configuration of quantum fields representing a local minimum but not global minimum of energy. This type of vacuum state is called a "false vacuum".
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calculate the natural risks of the destruction of the Earth at less than 1/10 per year from all natural (i.e. non-anthropogenic) events, including a transition to a lower vacuum state. They argue that due to
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at which the total energy of the bubble is zero; smaller bubbles tend to shrink, while larger bubbles tend to grow. To be able to nucleate, the bubble must overcome an energy barrier of height
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1316: 1098: 978:. The corresponding false vacuum hypothesis is called either "Electroweak vacuum instability" or "Higgs vacuum instability". The present false vacuum state is called 1562: 1183: 5836: 1647: 1029: 1621: 999: 876:, in his original proposal for cosmic inflation, proposed that inflation could end through quantum mechanical bubble nucleation of the sort described above. See 1340: 2605:
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he bad news is that its mass suggests the universe will end in a fast-spreading bubble of doom. The good news? It'll probably be tens of billions of years.
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In a study in 2015, it was pointed out that the vacuum decay rate could be vastly increased in the vicinity of black holes, which would serve as a
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of the universe. In this more extreme case, the likelihood of a "bubble" forming is very low (i.e. false vacuum decay may be impossible).
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in 1995 and the Higgs boson in 2012 have allowed physicists to validate the criteria against experiment, therefore since 2012 the
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Institute of Physics and Mathematics suggested that the universe could have been spontaneously created from nothing (no
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and is therefore not completely stable, in contrast to a true vacuum, which exists at a global minimum and is stable.
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may be an effect of a false vacuum decaying into the true vacuum. The inflation itself may be the consequence of the
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Decay of the false vacuum at finite temperature was first observed in ferromagnetic superfluids of ultracold atoms.
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that "without warning, a bubble of true vacuum could nucleate somewhere in the universe and move outwards ..."
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to lower energy states. For a large potential barrier, the tunneling rate per unit volume of space is given by
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Earth will likely be long gone before any Higgs boson particles set off an apocalyptic assault on the universe
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is defined as a space with as little energy in it as possible. Despite the name, the vacuum still has quantum
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If particle collisions produce mini black holes, then energetic collisions such as the ones produced in the
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calculates the Euclidean action for the bounce solution that contributes to the false vacuum decay.
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at the time of their respective proposal, and determined to be unfounded by scientific inquiry.
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In general, gravity is believed to stabilize a false vacuum state, at least for transition from
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is grand unification energy. ξ is the degree of non-minimal coupling between fundamental forces.
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difference between vacua, the bubble wall thickness becomes comparable to the critical radius.
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Decay to vacuum with larger neutrino mass (may have happened as late as few billion years ago).
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When the false vacuum decays, the lower-energy true vacuum forms through a process known as
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suggests that the universe may be in either a false vacuum or a true vacuum state.
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A bubble smaller than the critical size can overcome the potential barrier via
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sometimes misreported as the Higgs boson "ending" the universe. A 125.18±0.16
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was first formulated in 1979 as a function of the masses of the theoretical
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that is locally stable but does not occupy the most stable possible
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is considered as the most promising candidate for a
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The Structured Vacuum – thinking about nothing
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"Vacuum States". 2127: 2125: 2071: 2069: 4890:Self-referencing doomsday argument rebuttal 3328:{\displaystyle {\sqrt {s}}=13~{\text{TeV}}} 1817:2018 by System Erasure in their video game 1720:emitted just before the black holes merge. 854:trapped in a false vacuum state with Higgs 5190: 4993:Climate change and civilizational collapse 4953: 4676: 4662: 4654: 2187:"The environmental impact of vacuum decay" 1318:is the unknown (possibly extremely large) 613: 599: 213: 87: 45: 29: 4429: 4400: 4382: 4214: 4161: 4108: 4082:"Could Black Holes Destroy the Universe?" 4041: 3989: 3937: 3885: 3821: 3789: 3545: 3456: 3368: 3350: 3320: 3304: 3302: 3280: 3231: 3178: 3141: 3131: 2971: 2918: 2865: 2812: 2759: 2688: 2581: 2513: 2383: 2145: 2097: 2021: 2003: 1992:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 1884: 1628: 1605: 1549: 1505: 1499: 1491: 1474: 1463: 1453: 1445: 1373: 1364: 1358: 1327: 1303: 1280: 1228: 1210: 1201: 1195: 1169: 1163: 1084: 1078: 1010: 1005:), while tentative true vacuum is called 983: 5996:Centre for the Study of Existential Risk 5934:Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction 2060:"Vacuum decay: the ultimate catastrophe" 1917:"Vacuum decay: the ultimate catastrophe" 938: 930: 624: 1863: 1551: 1510: 1481: 1342:is the radius of the bubble. Rewriting 244: 216: 108: 37: 2231:M.S. Turner; F. Wilczek (1982-08-12). 1941: 1939: 1937: 809:, as part of their investigation into 3412:from the original on 21 February 2013 3023:from the original on 20 February 2013 2359:from the original on 13 December 2019 2279:from the original on 13 December 2019 7: 5013:Tipping points in the climate system 1437: 1350: 1187: 5008:Extinction risk from climate change 4907:New World Order (conspiracy theory) 2401:"Is a doomsday catastrophe likely?" 2185:Crone, Mary M.; Sher, Marc (1991). 1765:in his science-fiction short story 878:history of Chaotic inflation theory 862:function very close to zero at the 777:Nonetheless, one could always draw 699:Definition of true vs. false vacuum 5968:List of fictional doomsday devices 3045:Hoffman, Mark (19 February 2013). 1684:. Hut and Rees note that, because 1496: 1471: 1391: 1388: 1285: 1282: 1243: 1240: 1198: 846:A number of theories suggest that 341:2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey ("2dF") 25: 4988:Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis 3057:from the original on 11 June 2019 764:, a space much like conventional 672:. In this condition it is called 556:Timeline of cosmological theories 321:Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) 6104: 6103: 6091: 5249:Decline in amphibian populations 4340:Crane, Leah (26 November 2021). 3400:Boyle, Alan (19 February 2013). 1578:lowering the potential barrier. 743:involve the full destruction of 580: 569: 568: 5600:Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 5097:Land surface effects on climate 5070:Human impact on the environment 4701:Future of an expanding universe 4633:"The Decay of the False Vacuum" 3754:"Aspects of False Vacuum Decay" 3361:10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12050-4 3339:The European Physical Journal C 3081:Catholic Online/NEWS CONSORTIUM 2399:M. Tegmark; N. Bostrom (2005). 1706:Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider 1661:Black holes as nucleation seeds 1657:may enhance decay probability. 1570: 1344: 951:The stability criteria for the 336:Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 189:Future of an expanding universe 6155:Physical cosmological concepts 4545:. Cambridge University Press. 4470:Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction 4150:Journal of High Energy Physics 3874:Journal of High Energy Physics 3810:Journal of High Energy Physics 3220:Journal of High Energy Physics 3197:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.03.015 2937:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.054 2801:Journal of High Energy Physics 2532:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.024 2164:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.11.044 551:History of the Big Bang theory 347:Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy 1: 6175:Ultimate fate of the universe 5546:Interpretations of Revelation 5348:Cosmological phase transition 5254:Decline in insect populations 4706:Ultimate fate of the universe 4448:10.1088/1475-7516/2022/10/030 4127:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/12/044 2884:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/08/011 1809:in his science fiction novel 1799:in his science fiction novel 1787:in his science fiction novel 1775:in his science fiction novel 1745:False vacuum decay in fiction 1702:Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit 1348:gives the critical radius as 803:In a 2005 paper published in 543:Discovery of cosmic microwave 194:Ultimate fate of the universe 6001:Future of Humanity Institute 5398:Potentially hazardous object 5298:Interplanetary contamination 3669:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90099-5 3518:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90293-6 3108:"Review of Particle Physics" 3083:. 2013-02-20. 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Müller, Berndt (1985). 811:global catastrophic risks 167:Expansion of the universe 6006:Future of Life Institute 5908:Resurrection of the dead 5901:Post-tribulation rapture 5283:Colony collapse disorder 3956:10.1088/1361-6471/ac7f24 3739:10.1103/physrevd.15.2929 3704:10.1103/PhysRevD.15.2922 3599:10.1103/PhysRevD.14.3568 2334:10.1103/PhysRevD.21.3305 2023:10.3389/fspas.2018.00040 1968:10.1103/physrevd.16.1762 1322:of the domain wall, and 1127:Decay to vacuum with no 1111:vacuum expectation value 927:Electroweak vacuum decay 870:Chaotic inflation theory 331:Planck space observatory 117:Gravitational wave (GWB) 4832:Artificial intelligence 4483:Stephen Baxter (2000). 4402:10.3390/universe9070301 4180:10.1007/JHEP01(2020)015 3904:10.1007/JHEP07(2022)147 3840:10.1007/JHEP08(2015)114 3614:Physical Review Letters 3271:Vanadia, Marco (2022), 3250:10.1007/JHEP09(2014)182 2831:10.1007/JHEP01(2015)061 2642:Physical Review Letters 2583:10.1103/physrevd.23.347 1566:reduced Planck constant 1311:{\displaystyle \gamma } 1117:and destabilization of 1093:{\displaystyle 10^{65}} 969:electroweak interaction 953:electroweak interaction 817:and Oxford philosopher 184:Inhomogeneous cosmology 5961:List of disaster films 5802:Apocalyptic literature 4902:Malthusian catastrophe 4828:Synthetic intelligence 3329: 1682:primordial black holes 1671:primordial black holes 1643: 1623:(de Sitter space) to 1617: 1558: 1557:{\displaystyle \hbar } 1522: 1405: 1336: 1312: 1292: 1253: 1179: 1094: 1025: 995: 948: 936: 922:Vacuum decay varieties 801: 755:immediately collapse: 749:gravitational collapse 653: 6165:Inflation (cosmology) 5343:Coronal mass ejection 4805:Electromagnetic pulse 4766:Kinetic energy weapon 3406:NBC News' Cosmic blog 3330: 1753:in works picturing a 1710:Large Hadron Collider 1678:Large Hadron Collider 1644: 1618: 1590:Further information: 1559: 1523: 1406: 1337: 1313: 1293: 1254: 1180: 1178:{\displaystyle R_{c}} 1095: 1026: 996: 942: 934: 646:high-energy particles 628: 275:Large-scale structure 253:Shape of the universe 6160:Quantum field theory 5745:War of Gog and Magog 5422:Near-Earth supernova 5172:Human overpopulation 4976:Mass mortality event 4870:Anthropogenic hazard 4315:John Leslie (1998). 3301: 3087:on 26 September 2013 3051:Science World Report 2062:. 14 September 2015. 1627: 1604: 1548: 1444: 1357: 1326: 1302: 1279: 1194: 1162: 1077: 1033:Anti-de Sitter space 1009: 982: 916:quantum fluctuations 884:and, independently, 762:anti-de Sitter space 740:elementary particles 658:quantum field theory 587:Astronomy portal 545:background radiation 522:List of cosmologists 5817:Blood moon prophecy 5610:Number of the Beast 5208:Holocene extinction 5154:Earth Overshoot Day 5102:Ocean acidification 5065:Habitat destruction 5055:Ecological collapse 4761:Kinetic bombardment 4696:Future of the Earth 4440:2022JCAP...10..030K 4393:2023Univ....9..301C 4286:1983Natur.302..508H 4225:2023PhRvD.107f4043S 4172:2020JHEP...01..015O 4119:2017JCAP...12..044D 4052:2020PhRvD.101j4036F 4000:2021PhRvD.104f5007E 3948:2022JPhG...49j3001D 3896:2022JHEP...07..147M 3832:2015JHEP...08..114B 3752:Wenyuan Ai (2019). 3731:1977PhRvD..15.2929C 3696:1977PhRvD..15.2922F 3661:1977PhLB...67..186S 3626:1976PhRvL..37.1378F 3591:1976PhRvD..14.3568S 3556:2024NatPh..20..558Z 3510:1983NuPhB.216..421L 3467:2018PhRvD..97e6006A 3425:The article quotes 3242:2014JHEP...09..182B 3189:2015PhLB..743..428S 3124:2018PhRvD..98c0001T 2982:2013PhRvD..87e3001M 2929:2009PhLB..679..369E 2876:2017JCAP...08..011K 2823:2015JHEP...01..061H 2770:2018PhRvD..98j3521K 2699:2014PhRvD..89h3510H 2654:1982PhRvL..48.1220A 2619:1982PhLB..108..389L 2574:1981PhRvD..23..347G 2524:2012PhLB..716..214A 2420:2005Natur.438..754T 2326:1980PhRvD..21.3305C 2254:1982Natur.298..633T 2203:1991AmJPh..59...25C 2156:2017PhLB..764..271L 2014:2018FrASS...5...40R 1960:1977PhRvD..16.1762C 1642:{\displaystyle AdS} 1024:{\displaystyle AdS} 963:. 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Landis 1724:Bubble propagation 1655:magnetic monopoles 1639: 1616:{\displaystyle dS} 1613: 1554: 1518: 1429:quantum tunnelling 1401: 1332: 1308: 1288: 1249: 1175: 1154:) have a positive 1090: 1021: 994:{\displaystyle dS} 991: 949: 937: 771:Friedmann universe 747:or even immediate 736:fundamental forces 729:Existential threat 678:false vacuum decay 664:is a hypothetical 654: 326:Dark Energy Survey 270:Large quasar group 39:Physical cosmology 18:False vacuum decay 6142: 6141: 5973:Zombie apocalypse 5874:Postmillennialism 5669:Great Tribulation 5442:Stellar collision 5403:Near-Earth object 5353:Geomagnetic storm 5321: 5320: 5244:Biodiversity loss 5228:Genetic pollution 5182: 5181: 4971:Biodiversity loss 4934:Societal collapse 4912:Nuclear holocaust 4897:Economic collapse 4880:Doomsday argument 4798:Antimatter weapon 4552:978-0-521-31827-3 4530:978-3-87144-889-8 4523:. 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False vacuum decay
Physical cosmology
Full-sky image derived from nine years' WMAP data
Big Bang
Universe
Age of the universe
Chronology of the universe
Inflation
Nucleosynthesis
Gravitational wave (GWB)
Microwave (CMB)
Neutrino (CNB)
Hubble's law
Redshift
Expansion of the universe
FLRW metric
Friedmann equations
Inhomogeneous cosmology
Future of an expanding universe
Ultimate fate of the universe
Lambda-CDM model
Dark energy
Dark matter
Shape of the universe
Galaxy filament
Galaxy formation
Large quasar group
Large-scale structure
Reionization
Structure formation

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