We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, our most powerful ...

Some black holes roaming the Universe today may actually be older than the Big Bang. A new cosmic “bounce” model suggests the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies — and even before the violent ...

Would the detection of gravitational waves from just after the big bang finally prove your theory of cosmic inflation? If primordial gravitational waves were indeed detected by the BICEP2 telescope, ...

Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, known as quantum foam. It was a state where spacetime was unstable, and ...

Cosmic inflation posits a brief epoch of accelerated expansion in the early Universe, resolving the horizon and flatness puzzles while laying down the primordial density fluctuations that seed cosmic ...

‘Cosmic fossils’ left by black holes created before the big bang may still shape the universe - Universe may have been ...

Sceptics are rounding on last month's claims of evidence for inflation and gravitational waves. But it was right to publish to allow independent scrutiny “THE wolves are circling the campfire.” That’s ...

We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...

See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an unfathomably rapid expansion — even faster than in traditional ...

Before there was light, there was cosmic inflation. Before life, planet Earth, the first galaxies—and even before the violent explosion of hot dense primordial stuff scientists have traditionally ...