Simulations based on Einstein’s theory of relativity test scenarios that might have preceded the Big Bang, to observe the ...

Researchers are using supercomputer simulations grounded in Einstein’s relativity to test scenarios about what may have ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

Today’s standard cosmological model, based on the Big Bang and cosmic inflation (the idea that the early universe rapidly blew up in size), has been remarkably successful in explaining the ...

Meanwhile, cosmic inflation is a scenario proposed in the 1980s to explain why the universe is so smooth and flat on the largest scales we can see.

The new model is called WIFI, which stands for dark matter production during Warm Inflation via Freeze-In. According to a new model, dark matter particles (black dots) began forming as the universe ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important processes like star formation, cosmic-ray movement, and materials mixing in ...

So inflation as a theory actually explains all of those observations.” Both Brainerd and Marscher said they would be certain to include these findings into their classes on astronomy, though they ...

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.

A spacecraft from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, set to launch as early as Sunday evening, will seek answers to the mystery of cosmic inflation.

While it's possible to sum up these objectives in an elevator pitch, the details touch on esoteric topics like cosmic inflation, quantum physics, and the flatness of spacetime.

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 ...