The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, ...

one big question about the big bang remains: “What was it that banged?” The answer lies in his theory of cosmic inflation. “It sets up the conditions for the big bang—like a prequel ...

Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, ...

Science’s best guess at how the universe came into being includes the Big Bang followed by a moment of rapid inflationary ...

Time For Reflection Our understanding of the universe, as advanced as it is, is still riddled with paradoxes and huge ...

Spurred by the success of quantum chromodynamics and electroweak theory in describing ... of a second after the Big Bang. His 1981 paper heralded the virtues of inflation — an explanation ...

Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS ...

According to the hypothesis, the extreme distortions of space associated with black holes is linked, or coupled, to the ...