The result, backed up by the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) – thought to be the faint "afterglow" of the first light in the universe – was the Big Bang model.

New research challenges everything we know about the Big Bang. A new theory has emerged, called the black hole universe, that offers a radically different view of cosmic origins ...

A new model proposes that the Big Bang was not the universe's beginning but resulted from a gravitational collapse forming a massive black hole, followed by a quantum-mechanically driven bounce.

And they had noticed that Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe, it wasn't matching the math. Over the next few decades, Copernicus calculated and recalculated and re-recalculated the ...

In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger “parent” universe. We are not special, no more than Earth was in the geocentric ...

Our best model of the universe is called lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM), which splits the cosmos into three parts: the matter we can see, the matter we can’t see that still has a gravitational ...

The most widely accepted theoretical model, the Lambda/Cold Dark Matter model (ΛCDM), says the universe is growing at 67-68 km/s/Mpc. But what astronomers see through their equipment is a little ...

New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, showing some of the oldest light we can possibly see.

The new model forgoes the need for either dark matter or dark energy as explanations for the universe's acceleration and how structures like galaxies are generated.. The researcher's work builds ...

Trails of stars can be seen after an hour-long exposure above Kitt Peak National Observatory, home of the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.