For decades, scientists have disagreed about a fundamental question: how quickly is the Universe expanding? But this year, astronomer Wendy Freedman announced results that could help to put the ...
(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the past decade, astrophysicists have found a lot of evidence that our large-scale theory for how the universe works has some large-scale problems as well. It has, however ...
Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate. This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured GAL-CLUS-022058s, a massive Einstein ring in the Fornax constellation, nicknamed the "Molten Ring" for its striking appearance. The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) ...
Stephen Hawking’s 1966 doctoral thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, represents a cornerstone in the field of cosmology and theoretical physics. Written when Hawking was just 24 years old ...