Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain ...

Gravity is by far the weakest of nature’s four fundamental forces, and physicists have spent decades asking a deceptively simple question: why? One answer, first sketched a century ago and refined ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, the origin of the universe began with the Big Bang. Scientists say all space, time, matter, and ...

Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of ...

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Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other birthing space and time. A provocative line of research now suggests those ...

This framework forces a profound philosophical shift: our Big Bang was merely a local event. The 93-billion-light-year sphere of space we can observe is just a tiny boat in a massive cosmic ocean, ...

A researcher has made a puzzling discovery while analyzing observations taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. While analyzing images for the telescope’s Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES ...