Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

As per the title, simple question: what are the most up-to-date books on cosmology? Obviously I mean for the layman, not the PhD research student! I haven't read a good one in quite a while, ie many ...

Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected. A panel of physicists and astronomers ...

Neutron stars, when they merge, should create an electromagnetic counterpart if they don't create a black hole right away, as light and particles will be expelled due to internal reactions in the ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized explosion but a simultaneous ...

PHOTONS travel light. They have been zinging around the cosmos largely unimpeded since around 380,000 years after the big bang, when atoms formed and the universe became transparent to them. Astronomy ...