Dark Matter: Scientists tested Newton’s Law across 750 million light-years: Does gravity still work as Newton predicted?
It’s been more than three centuries since Isaac Newton figured out that gravity pulls things together. You’d think,…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
New Research Says the Big Bang May Be Linked to a “Deeper Theory of Gravity,” Challenging Past Ideas
Researchers say a new theory tackling the Big Bang could reshape how physicists think about the earliest moments…
You saw remnants of Big Bang as TV static happened, and you didn’t even know
Do you remember the white noise that came on television channels when no station was available? It apparently…
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…
Rather Than Expanding Forever, The Universe May Be Doomed to “Crunch” in 20 Billion Years
Illustration by ZME Science. We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a…
The Age of the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen Barely Makes Any Sense
The Webb space telescope has allowed us to peer farther back into the universe than ever before, providing…
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;…