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J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

The halo is more extended than astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

For the last several years, cosmology – the study of the universe as a whole – has been facing a major tension. The two main ...

“Cosmologists are often wrong but never in doubt,” Russian physicist Lev Landau once said. In the early days, astronomers began by observing and modelling stars in different stages of evolution and ...