Three physicists have proposed a modification to Einstein’s general relativity that, if confirmed, could eliminate the ...

Researchers at Waterloo have developed a novel approach to understanding how the universe originated, which could reshape ...

A team of physicists has proposed a specific modification to Einstein’s general relativity that could eliminate the Big Bang ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe CREDIT A. Ijjas, P.J. Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific American, February 2017) Astrophysicists say ...

For a fraction of a second after the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, most physicists believe, the newborn universe dramatically ballooned in size, jumping from being smaller than a proton to ...

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For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally accepted that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an unfathomably rapid expansion — even faster than in traditional Big Bang theories — but scientists don’t know why it happened. A ...

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 ...