In the very earliest moments of the big bang, the universe experienced a period of rapid expansion known as inflation.…
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All the physical properties of our Universe - indeed, the fact that we even exist within a Universe that we can…
This week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in the UK, physicists are challenging the evidence for the…
Last month astronomers provided evidence that the universe underwent a brief but stupendous expansion at the very beginning of time.…
Just a month ago came the news of the first direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the…
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Days like these make being an astrophysicist interesting. On the one hand, there is the annoucement of BICEP2 that the…