This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What do we really know about our universe?

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

Did The universe really begin with a bang, a bounce? The theory that the universe is both possibly having endured a sudden contraction and then bounced into the expanding universe we know today is not ...

A series of viral social media posts drew attention to an old cosmological theory-that our universe began from a collision ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forget one Big Bang — try many. A bold new theory pokes holes in the popular origin story, suggesting the universe evolves through ...

In 2023, physicists were awed to find nearly imperceptible ripples in the fabric of space and time — united as an entity known as spacetime. They were ripples discovered in association with ...

The Big bang and Georges Lemaitre : proceedings of a symposium in honour of G. Lemaitre fifty years after his initiation of big-bang cosmology, Louvainla-Neuve, Belgium, 10-13 October 1983 / edited by ...

In the 1920s, scientists discovered that the universe was not static in size, as had previously been assumed, but was expanding in all directions. Galaxies were rushing away from one another as the ...

The standard model of cosmology may be the best explanation we’ve got for why the universe is the way it is and how it all came to be. But it’s not the only explanation. Enter black hole cosmology. It ...

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Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...