It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...

Inflation is unimaginably faster. It would have transformed the universe from tiny to cosmic is a snap. Continue reading “How ...

A paper published in 2024 theorizes that time may have existed before the Big Bang, but we're still not entirely sure.

If the universe sprung forth in this manner, then probably inflation has occurred in other places, perhaps an infinite number of places, beyond our horizon and outside of our time. The implication ...

His 1981 paper heralded the virtues of inflation — an explanation for the smoothness, flatness and longevity of the Universe as well as the heat of the Big Bang — but it also challenged his ...

Then, during a brief but dramatic period called inflation, the universe expanded at an extraordinary speed, stretching those ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into being. As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw particles in, ...

the last surviving remnants of the universe as we know it, will have disappeared. Along the way you'll learn of how the early inflationary period led to the birth of stars and galaxies ...

Inflation, in the context of the big bang theory, refers to the episode of exponential expansion of the very early universe indicated by particle physics' Grand Unified Theories (Extensive references ...