The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...
One hundred years ago Saturday, humanity learned that the universe is a much bigger place than a lot of people thought. The news broke publicly in the New York Times on Nov. 23, 1924 in a short Page 6 ...
If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number of other tiny dots, forms clusters that aggregate into superclusters, ...
Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...
Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale. Named Quipu, this colossal filament spans 1.3 billion light-years, making ...
Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...
It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.
A new JCAP study tests an “emulator” to reconstruct the large-scale structure of the cosmos If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together ...
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...