In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles. Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the universe ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

Something like 13.8 billion years ago, all energy in the universe was condensed into a single point. Until suddenly it wasn’t. The resulting detonation was the most massive explosion in all of the ...

Ian G. McCarthy receives funding from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). He works for Liverpool John Moores University. Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is ...

A new study by physicists highlights one way that cyclic or 'bouncing' cosmologies fall flat. 'People proposed bouncing universes to make the universe infinite into the past, but what we show is that ...