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Physicists say we live in a black hole. Not metaphorically, not emotionally, and not just during tax season. But literally, inside a black hole. And not just this. A group of researchers has published a paper claiming that we’ve got the Big Bang wrong. It was actually the collapse of an earlier universe to a black hole, which we now live in. That sounds… wild. I've had a look.

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Paper here: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.103537

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