Big Bang
What Happened Before The Big Bang? Do We Know?
December 18, 2015 | Editors
We are part of a great big universe — and for a long time, one of the greatest challenges in all of science has been figuring out — how the universe got here? What came before the Big Bang? Read More
Astronomers Discovered Ancient Dusty Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist
March 3, 2015 | Editors
Many people change a lot after their youth… and so to did our Universe. Nowadays, galaxies contain both dust and gas, but back in the early Big-Bang days, the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now, A team of astronomers, led by Darach Watson, from the University of Copenhagen used the Very Large Telescope‘s X-shooter instrument along with the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) to observe one of the youngest and most remote galaxies ever found. Read More
New Radical Theory of Time: The Big Bang may have Created a Parallel Universe?
December 11, 2014 | Editors 3
Why does time only go in one direction? And why is the future so different from the past? They seem obvious questions, but they have troubled scientists for over a century. A new theory has proposed an answer — that time doesn’t run just one way, and that there is another universe, a mirror of ours, where time runs backwards. Read More
Gravity may have Saved Universe from Collapsing after Big Bang
November 19, 2014 | Editors
A new study has revealed that gravity may have saved the universe from collapsing immediately after the Big Bang. Studies of the Higgs particle have suggested that the production of Higgs particles during the accelerating expansion of the very early universe (inflation) should have led to instability and collapse. Read More
The Big Bang Theory (Video)
September 18, 2014 | Editors 2
The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it talks about the universe as we know it starting with a small singularity, then inflating over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today. Read More
Big Bang: Big Doubt For Most Americans
July 12, 2014 | Editors
A recent poll brings bad news for those who trust in scientific consensus: a majority of adults in the United States are not convinced that the universe began with the Big Bang according to a new Associated Press poll. Read More
Astronomers Have Discovered The Oldest Known Star
February 11, 2014 | Editors
Astronomers have discovered the oldest known star so far, belonging to one of the first generations of stars formed shortly after the birth of the universe. Read More
The Most Detailed Map Of The Universe
February 1, 2014 | Editors 9
The EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY made public at a press conference in Paris, the first scientific results of Planck space mission, the largest space project ever conducted by Europe and which cost 1.9 billion euros. Read More
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