The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size before beginning to contract. These results profoundly change our view ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest. Based on several recent dark energy ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an invisible force called dark energy. But new data suggest that this is ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

Evolution of a Revolution ... new possible cosmologies in which the universe, say, five seconds before the big bang expanded at the same pace as it did five seconds after the bang. But the rate of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The birth of the universe has been a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries. In a groundbreaking study published ...