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Paul Sutter

Our model of the universe is deeply flawed — unless space is actually a 'sticky fluid,' new research hints

Orange clouds of dust in space look like mountains in the JWST image.

Recent observations have revealed that our understanding of the cosmos is flawed, but it may be because the universe is "stickier" than we assumed, new research proposes.

In a paper that was published on the arXiv preprint server but has not been peer-reviewed, Muhammad Ghulam Khuwajah Khan, a researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology, suggests that space may possess a property called bulk viscosity.

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