If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

Albert Einstein stands next to Catholic priest Georges Lemaître in a black and white photo from 1900 In 1915, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which originally stated that ...

The Big Bang wasn’t always a sure bet. For several decades in the 20th century, researchers wrestled with interpreting cosmic origins, or if there even was a beginning at all. At the forefront of that ...

Around 13.8 billion years ago, a single event gave birth to an extremely hot and dense sea of neutrons and electrons. Over time, these particles started to combine together, and, eventually, an atom ...

Our entire cosmic history is theoretically well-understood, but only because we understand the theory of gravitation that underlies it, and because we know the Universe's present expansion rate and ...

HOLMDEL - On top of the highest peak in Monmouth County lies the Horn Antenna, a large aluminum structure instrumental in the confirmation of the Big Bang theory. That's no small thing. “It was the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy contained within our ...