“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...
Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized explosion but a simultaneous ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study ...
Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Weak gravitational lensing could provide an answer
A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological Principle, by ...
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How Many Stars Are in The Milky Way? More Than You Can Imagine
Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.
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Scientists Just Found a Cosmic Structure So Massive It Shouldn’t Be There at All
Astronomers have uncovered two extraordinary cosmic structures that are challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of ...
The Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet framework extends Einstein’s theory of General Relativity by including a higher-order curvature term that gains dynamical relevance in dimensions beyond four. This approach ...
The Einstein equations remain the cornerstone of general relativity, underpinning our understanding of how matter and energy influence spacetime curvature. Recent investigations have not only ...
T.P. Walker, G. Steigman, D.N. Schramm, K.A. Olive, H.S. Kang, "Primordial nucleosynthesis redux," The Astrophysical Journal, 376:393, 1991. Terry Walker (Ohio State ...
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