According to our best understanding, the universe is expanding – and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to be caused by something called the “cosmological constant”, which was first ...
Earlier this year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed observations that mapped 47 million galaxies across 11 billion light-years, allowing astronomers to better evaluate the ...
Two weeks ago, when Till Sawala heard the news of a peer-reviewed paper that purported to upend our understanding of the universe, he immediately suspected that something was off. Then again, the ...
New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could explain dark matter, one of the biggest unsolved questions in cosmology.
To me cosmology was never really about the equations. It's the oldest thing we do, this itch to look up and try to explain the whole business, and it shows up in myth and in a whole constellation of ...