Albert Einstein stands next to Catholic priest Georges Lemaître in a black and white photo from 1900 In 1915, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which originally stated that ...
The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, ...
Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...
Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. That’s how ...
Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...
Young Sheldon better brush up on his German! Thursday’s episode of the Big Bang Theory prequel series set the stage for Sheldon’s predestined stint in Central Europe. After the college junior learned ...