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Was the universe created with a Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, or has it been expanding and contracting for eternity? A new paper, inspired by alternative explanations of the physics of black holes, ...

The Big Bang theory has been the most widely accepted explanation about how our universe all began — but now experts are challenging the theory. Brazilian physicist Juliano Cesar Silva Neves claims ...

DESI's 3D map of our universe. The Earth is at the central vertex, and every dot is a galaxy. DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Share The great ...

Cosmological coupling The researchers studied elliptical galaxies like Messier 59 to determine whether the mass of their central black holes changed throughout the past nine billion years. (Courtesy: ...

Our first glimpses into the physics that exist near the center of a black hole are being made possible using "loop quantum gravity"--a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational ...