A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from ...

Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, known as quantum foam. It was a state where spacetime was unstable, and ...

The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, existed 290 million years after the Big Bang - Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR The galaxy JADES ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, published in the Living Reviews in Relativity, introduces an innovative ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

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Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome.

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began in a big bang – or, at least, that is what we think happened. Astrophysicist Jo Dunkley is at the forefront of efforts to work out exactly what took ...

Andrei Linde freely admits that when he began developing theories of cosmic inflation in the early 1980s, the concept seemed like pure science fiction. But, as experimental data has verified his work, ...

For a half-century, most astrophysicists have accepted the notion that the universe began in a "Big Bang," an unimaginably powerful event in which all the matter and energy in the cosmos expanded ...