By Sakshi Sah
Published Feb 26, 2025

Hindustan Times
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Mind-blowing facts about the Universe

According to BBC, here are some amazing facts about the Universe.

At the heart of every galaxy, including ours, there’s a giant black hole.

No matter where you go in space, the background temperature stays nearly the same.

Everything we can see-stars, planets, and galaxies-makes up only 5% of the Universe.

The Universe was born 13.82 billion years ago when all matter, energy, space-and even time erupted into existence in a titanic fireball called the Big Bang.

Most of the stuff in the Universe has repulsive gravity.

Solar neutrinos are a by-product of sunlight-generating nuclear reactions.

The first-ever gravitational waves detected originated from a binary black hole system that no one had predicted.

Breathtaking newborn star images captured by NASA