Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the ...
Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other birthing space and time. A provocative line of research now suggests those ...
Northeastern University researchers have shown that our visible universe and invisible dark matter likely co-evolved from the time of the Big Bang. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Physicists have ...
WASHINGTON — Using data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The cause, they suggest, is the ...