The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there ...

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Cosmologists are pressing rewind on the first instant after the Big Bang by simulating 4,000 versions of the universe on a massive supercomputer. The goal is to paint a picture of the immediate ...

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Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in ...

Astronomers have proposed a new way to solve the so-called “Hubble tension,” but the approach ultimately raises more questions than it answers. By way of background, cosmologists are in a bit of a ...

For over 20 years, physicists have had reason to feel envious of certain fictional fish: specifically, the fish inhabiting the fantastic space of M. C. Escher’s Circle Limit III woodcut, which shrink ...

During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density ...

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For over 20 years, physicists have had reason to feel envious of certain fictional fish: specifically, the fish inhabiting the fantastic space of M. C. Escher’s Circle Limit III woodcut, which shrink ...