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Cosmologists are finally beginning to sketch a coherent picture of the universe we cannot see, using exquisitely detailed maps of galaxies, ghostly light and the large scale structure of space itself.

Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other birthing space and time. A provocative line of research now suggests those ...