It suggests that dark matter originated during the infinitesimally short span before the Big Bang when the Universe suddenly expanded to a large extent. In 1981, physicist Alan Guth proposed the ...

But some theories suggest that this inflation period actually occurred before what we call the Big Bang. And now, physicists at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin have proposed that dark ...

That burst of inflation in our universe is, of course, key evidence for our universe having emerged from a hot, dense point—the Big Bang. However, what happened before the Big Bang—and whether ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Despite the linear run of “Big Bang” ending just before Paramount merged with CBS in December 2019, the entrance of the show into Paramount’s programming is still being advertised as a retur ...

The British scientist, who also made cameos in The Simpsons and Star Trek - had appeared in The Big Bang Theory before. Thursday night's episode marked the end of the show's 11th season.

From one billion to three billion years after the big bang many smaller galaxies merged ... black holes became hot enough to glow brightly before it disappeared. The light of these "quasars ...

As a result, the proposal showed there was little point asking what happened before the Big Bang. Hawking’s first forays into science publication were as a student in the 1960s when he’d had ...

Neil Turok, renowned cosmologist and Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, suggests a mirror universe existed before the Big Bang, moving backward in time. This bold ...