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Cosmology

Latest in Cosmology

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

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest mysteries.

Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void

By Frank Landymore

We're on the verge of decoding a telltale signal emitted when the universe gave birth to the very first stars.

Scientists Working to Decode Signal From Earliest Years of Universe

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

The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's puzzling astronomers.

Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us

By Frank Landymore

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter is saying.

Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Signal

By Victor Tangermann

The latest observations of a survey of millions of galaxies indicate that dark energy, which drives the universe's expansion, is changing.

An Important Force of the Universe Appears to Be Changing, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

New research explores the mechanics behind the "false vacuum" theory, the idea that the universe is in a state of only temporary stability.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Find That the Universe Could “Collapse Like a House of Cards”

By Frank Landymore

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

Science & Energy

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

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers say they've calculated the underlying cosmological parameters of the universe using an AI model.

Scientists Calculate “Settings” of the Universe Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Primordial black holes neatly explain where all the dark matter in the universe is hiding — if we could find them.

Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found

By Frank Landymore

Dark matter may in fact be made up of light-barrier breaking particles called tachyons, the researchers posit.

Science & Energy

Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light

By Frank Landymore

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.

Astronomers Puzzled by Cosmic Megastructure So Large It Shouldn’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

Researchers say issues with the Hubble Constant could be explained by a "mirror world" invisible to us except through gravitational impact on our cosmos.

Scientists Say There May Be a “Mirror World” to Our Own

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A University of Oxford professor says we may be very wrong about the way the universe looks and expands, re-writing cosmology rules and theory.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say We May Be Extremely Wrong About the Universe

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Giant Arc of Galaxies That Could “Overturn Cosmology”

By Tony Ho Tran