Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Big Bang
The Big Bang is the popular name for the moment in time when the Universe started The term ‘Big Bang’ is often taken to refer…
Big Bang
Shadow of Cosmic Water Cloud Reveals Secrets of Early Universe – Confirms Properties of Dark Energy
An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years…
Uncovering the Secrets of the Big Bang With Artificial Intelligence
Can machine learning be used to uncover the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma? Yes — but only with sophisticated new methods. It could hardly be…
The Big Bang: How Could Something Come From Nothing?
READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them…
Constraining the Multiverse: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About the Big Bang
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, was…
Are Black Holes and Dark Matter the Same? Astrophysicists Upend Textbook Explanations
Upending textbook explanations, astrophysicists from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency suggest that primordial black holes account for all dark…
Understanding the Big Bang and the Cosmological Lithium Problem
Recently, an international research team successfully updated the 7Li(d,n)24He reaction rate based on the latest experimental data, which removes the significant ambiguity in the cosmological…
Black Holes Could Be Dark Matter – And May Have Existed Since the Beginning of the Universe
Did black holes form immediately after the Big Bang? How did supermassive black holes form? What is dark matter? In an alternative model for how…
Challenging the Big Bang Puzzle of Heavy Elements: Earth Factories Creating Elements From Nuclear Transmutation
Rather than being created solely during supernova explosions, chemical elements could also be produced deep within the Earth’s lower mantle. It has long been theorized…
Solving a Cosmic Conundrum: “Perfect Fluid” Brings Us Closer to Understanding How Our Universe Began
How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid Berkeley Lab research brings us closer to understanding how our…
Straight Out of the Big Bang: New Type of Gravitational Wave Detector to Find Tennis Ball-Sized Black Holes
A new type of gravitational wave detector to find tennis ball-sized black holes straight out of the Big Bang. “Detecting primordial black holes opens up…
New Details Revealed of What Happened in the First Microsecond of the Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma — the first matter ever to be present — during…
The Very First Structures in the Universe: Astrophysicists Simulate Microscopic Clusters From the Big Bang
The very first moments of the Universe can be reconstructed mathematically even though they cannot be observed directly. Physicists from the Universities of Göttingen and…
How the Tiniest Particles in Our Universe Saved Us From Complete Annihilation
Recently discovered ripples of spacetime called gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove the theory that life survived the Big Bang because of a phase…
Exploring the Quantum Field, From the Sun’s Core to the Big Bang at MIT
Theoretical physicist William Detmold unlocks the mysteries of quarks, gluons, and their “strong interactions” at the subatomic level. How do protons fuse to power the…
Tracking Down the Mystery of the Origin of Matter: Complex Experiment Runs for 2 Years in Search for “New Physics”
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…
How the Big Bang Ignited – Solving One Mystery to the Origin of the Universe
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…
Putting the “Bang” in the Big Bang – “Reheating” Universe’s First Fractions of a Second
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…
