Big Bang

Latest in Big Bang

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

Scientists Calculate That the Entire Big Bang Must Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.

Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

A researcher from Kansas State University has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened.

Scientist Disputes That Big Bang Actually Happened

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers suggest the universe may never actually end, but instead lead to future Big Bangs, much like the one that brought our universe into being.

More Big Bangs Could Be Coming Up, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

As detailed in a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the universe may have begun with a "Big Bounce" — and not a Big Bang.

Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.

Physicist: There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.

Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

Nobel-winning cosmologist James Peebles argues that we need a better way to describe how the beginning of the universe happened than the "Big Bang."

Nobel-Winning Scientist: I Have No Idea if the Big Bang Happened

By Dan Robitzski

While studying hypersonic jet propulsion, a team of engineers stumbled upon the mechanism that could've led to the Big Bang.

Scientists Accidentally Recreate Big Bang Detonation in the Lab

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that dark matter was already there before the Big Bang occurred, altering our understanding of the history of the universe.

New Research: There May Have Been Dark Matter Before Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

By Jon Christian

Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology discovered a cloud of gas that was created around the time of the Big Bang.

Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”

By Victor Tangermann