‘Cosmic fossils’ left by black holes created before the big bang may still shape the universe - Universe may have been ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

(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.

Primordial black holes can resolve a number of cosmological mysteries. New research suggests that the universe originated ...