New theory argues wormholes are time mirrors, not cosmic tunnels
Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the longstanding scientific belief that…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Observes Something Unexpected at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest galaxy ever recorded, originating from only 280 million years…
Researchers show the universe’s primordial ‘soup’ was surprisingly viscous
When the universe first came into existence 13.8 billion years ago, there were no stars, planets, or even…
Dark Matter’s Earliest Moments May Have Been Far More Extreme Than We Thought
Dark matter map (2021) by the Dark Energy Survey using weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections…
Physicists Challenge Long-Held Assumptions about Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter may not have been ‘cold’ in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as long believed;…
Myth of wormholes and the quantum meaning of Einstein-Rosen Bridge
For decades, wormholes have been hypothesized as mysterious tunnels that might let us cross galaxies or even time…
Older than Milky Way: Scientists study signals older than 13 billion years — what they reveal
Imagine hearing a sound that began its journey before our galaxy even existed. That is what astronomers are…
ATLAS expands its reach into the high-rate frontier
Nature loves symmetry. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the vast…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Astronomers Think They May Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars Glowing From the Dawn of Time
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars as they would have appeared after the Big Bang.…
Our universe may have been born inside a black hole, study finds
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes…