Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before. In the process, they found out…
University of Central Florida researchers discover mechanisms for the cause of the Big Bang. Knowing the criteria behind the Big Bang explosion will be key…
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second. As the Big Bang theory goes, somewhere…
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang “dark age.” Astronomers are closing in on a signal that…
A new mathematical model suggests dark matter may have been produced before the Big Bang during cosmic inflation, when space was expanding rapidly. Researchers believe…
Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang — the notion that an impossibly hot, dense universe exploded into the one we know today. But…
The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe has been detected in space for the first time, after decades of searching. Scientists…
A team of scientists has proposed a powerful new test for inflation, the theory that the universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting fraction…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. Ordinary matter, or “baryons,”…
Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has…
Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave background…
For the first time, astronomers have detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. Using a radio antenna not much larger than a…
“I believe the Big Bang never happened,” said Juliano César Silva Neves, a physicist at the University of Campinas’s Mathematics, Statistics & Scientific Computation Institute…
After observing a nearby galaxy from which ultraviolet light is escaping, astronomers hypothesize that black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies and allowed light to…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that oscillating heavy particles generated “clocks” in the primordial universe that could be used to determine…
In a newly published study astronomers measured the emission from ionized carbon in seventeen young galaxies, revealing a good measure of the rate of star…
A newly published study details how the spacetime curvature provided the stability needed for the universe to survive after the Big Bang. Studies of the…
In a newly published study, physicists propose that the Higgs boson, which was recently confirmed to be the origin of mass, may also be responsible…