Ultra-low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves emanating from pulsars may be revealing the fabric of the universe.
“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 ...
For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...
Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. Will the James Webb telescope resolve the issue by revealing new physics? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected. A panel of physicists and astronomers ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in ...
His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...