One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

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For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally accepted that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of ...

In this video, we explore the Big Bang theory and common misconceptions surrounding it. The Big Bang theory suggests an explosion from an infinite density point, which is incorrect; instead, it ...

We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...

Researchers have shown that a discrepancy in a key cosmic measurement in the early universe originates from a subtle statistical interplay between measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) ...