We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

The annual Chester Peterson Jr. public lecture series offered Kansas State University students and faculty the chance to hear ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

What if the mysterious substance holding galaxies together is made of leftovers from a universe that existed before our own? That is the central question posed by physicists Carlo Rovelli and ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can describe a great deal about the universe ...

Black holes that formed before the Big Bang could still exist today as 'cosmic fossils', potentially helping to explain the mysterious dark matter ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.” Andrew ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Suppose at some point the universe ceases to expand, and instead begins collapsing in on itself (as in the “Big Crunch” scenario), and eventually becomes a supermassive black hole.

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...