Specifically, the team is looking at the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, which is called Cosmic Inflation, because it is when the entire universe expanded outward from the point of the ...

For decades, scientists have viewed the Big Bang as the starting point of space and time. But research into cosmic inflation—the lightning-fast expansion that likely occurred before the Big Bang ...

Physicists agree that an awful lot went on in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, a lot of it in incomprehensibly tiny ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome.

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed that far back in time. Yet a new paper published in Living Reviews in ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

A research team proposes utilizing numerical relativity, a computational technique for solving Einstein's equations in high-gravity environments, to investigate the universe's origin. The approach ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe rapidly expanded and cooled after the Big Bang. Light elements like helium and lithium ...

We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the big bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...