New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

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The Universe's Oldest Visible Light According to the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, for the first 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was a "hot soup of particles and ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests. That is to say this model of cosmology explains the ...

The End of the Universe Could Begin with a Quantum Bubble A freak particle physics process could wipe out all galaxies and life—but it’s wildly unlikely ...

Findings from a new study into the cosmic "afterglow" may rewrite the history of the universe, according to researchers. This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic ...

The Universe’s Darkest Mysteries Are Coming Into Focus As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic ...

Although our universe is mostly normal matter, antimatter isn’t so hard to create — supernovae, black holes, and even bananas can make it.