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 ...

Could it be that the universe’s first structures were born not from enigmatic inflaton fields, but from the echoes of ancient gravitational waves? In a shocking shift from the conventional picture of ...

In this video, Arvin Ash explores the history of the universe from the Big Bang to modern cosmology. Key discoveries include: - **1920s**: Edwin Hubble discovered galaxies outside the Milky Way and ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

The 2013 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky for their formative contributions to inflationary theory, an essential component for understanding the evolution ...

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As a cosmologist, Will Kinney explores the origins of the universe and how the universe is changing. His research focuses on cosmological inflation, dark matter and dark energy. Among other areas of ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

Early 20th-century cosmology transitioned from galactic astronomy with Edwin Hubble's discovery of external galaxies and the universe's expansion, which Albert Einstein's general relativity later ...