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

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 ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

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

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 ...

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

Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain ...

and created all the matter and energy in the universe. Exactly what triggered this sudden expansion remains a mystery. Astronomers believe it involved a runaway process called "inflation," in ...