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 ...
Is the universe’s expansion the same everywhere? New research suggests it’s not—which could have huge implications for our understanding of the cosmos. Scientists led by Konstantinos Migkas at the ...
“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 ...
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 ...